[PDF] Top 20 Essays in information economics

... how information is transmitted to legislators by lobby- ists ...by information already held by policy ...the information provided by a single lobby and only has an effect when two lobbies ...the ... See full document

... three essays considering the role of private information in economic ...mitigate information and enforcement frictions that impede the provision of first best insurance against income ...manipulate ... See full document

... proprietary information from its underwriting activity and ...private information are commonly used in the literature on banking and blockholders ...material information in our model is an inevitable ... See full document

... Delegation often involves multidimensional decisions. Consider a parent who chooses between two schools for her child. Many aspects of a school affect a child’s well-being: the physical activity level, the social ... See full document

... gather information about consumers has grown to such an alarming extent as to incite aggressive regulatory ...of information on consumers in Europe by firms. Acquiring information is ...useful ... See full document

... My paper is also related to recent studies on the institutional investors, such as Basak, Shaprio and Tepla (2006), Basak, Pavlova and Shaprio (2007, 2008), Basak and Makarov (2014), Basak and Pavlova (2013), Dasgupta ... See full document

... additional information that should highlight the initial ...provides information about the payoff relevant state of the ...the information processing can be ‘imperfect’ in two ways: an agent might ... See full document

... Essays in Macroeconomics Essays in Macroeconomics Christian Siegel A thesis submitted to the Department of Economics of the London School of Economics and Political Science for the degree of Doctor of[.] ... See full document

... By using a Digitised Thesis, I accept that Trinity College Dublin bears no legal responsibility for the accuracy, legality or comprehensiveness of materials contained within the thesis, and that Trinity College Dublin ... See full document

... Essays on Microeconomics London School of Economics and Political Science Essays on Microeconomics Oliver Enrique Pardo Reinoso A thesis submitted to the Department of Economics of the London School o[.] ... See full document

... uncertainty series more than double the adjusted R 2 for 1-year holding period returns on bond with maturity ranging from 2- to 10-years. We add the capital tax rate level and volatility series in Panel C. We observe ... See full document

... Expectations about success, often informed by ranking information, influence the effort that competitors exert and how they react to defeat. For example, Nelson and Furst (1972) found that competitors were more ... See full document

... As there is no existing evidence that the residual might drive an overall effect of stock-flow adjustment through a specific pattern, the natural interpretation of the total effect can b[r] ... See full document

... Research from the last 30 years suggests an important role of fairness in economic trans- actions. The Ultimatum Game — which models the last round of a negotiation between a buyer (proposer) and a seller (responder) — ... See full document

... We collected information about overall living conditions, including consump- tion, source of drinking water and sanitary facilities. We also asked a series of questions about physical health and illnesses ... See full document

... prior economics literature emphasizes the role of cognitive skills in determining lifetime outcomes, but our analysis shows that high cognitive skills, on average, go hand-in-hand with high non cognitive ... See full document

... The first PDMP was established in California in 1939, and as the need to collect data on prescription drugs for law enforcement and monitoring purposes grew, eight more states established this program by 1989. In this ... See full document

... The total execution time for the fourth set of simulations is 930,673 seconds (about 11 days ). The speed of convergence is fast in terms of the number of iterations (ranging from 600 to 900); Figure 4.11 depicts the ... See full document

... Using the same sample of schools, but with pupil level data, Eyles and Machin 2018 account for this potential source of bias by instrumenting attendance at an academy with attendance at [r] ... See full document

... In the first chapter, I study the impact of student debt on the education, career, and marriage choices of female lawyers.. Law students quite often take on substantial amounts of debt t[r] ... See full document