Agents undertaking economic decisions are exposed to an ever-increasing amount of information sources. This paper … investigates how the number of available information sources impacts agents' ability to (i) select reliable sources and (ii) use … guide policy-making decisions, providing evidence on externalities of information production. …

. This paper models such attention manipulation. In its presence, competitive information supply can reduce the decision …-maker's knowledge by causing information overload. Further, a single information provider may deliberately induce information overload … to conceal information. These findings, pertinent to consumer protection, suggest a role for rules that restrict …

We examine whether the desire for more information is people's dominant motive for reading economic and political news … experimentally vary people's beliefs about the informativeness of news. Inconsistent with the desire for more information being the … information reduce their demand for news from this newspaper. Furthermore, treated respondents who think that a news outlet is …