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College Attrition and the Dynamics of Information Revelation
This paper investigates the determinants of college attrition, in a setting where individuals have imperfect information about their schooling ability and labor market productivity.
Peter S. Arcidiacono+3 more
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Fighting Climate Change: International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies
This paper explores global perceptions and understanding of climate change and policies, examining factors that influence support for climate action and the impact of different types of information.
Antoine Dechezleprêtre+5 more
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Data, Competition, and Digital Platforms [PDF]
A monopolist platform uses data to match heterogeneous consumers with multiproduct sellers. The consumers can purchase the products on the platform or search off the platform.
D. Bergemann, A. Bonatti
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Overreaction in Macroeconomic Expectations
We study the rationality of individual and consensus forecasts of macroeconomic and financial variables using the methodology of Coibion and Gorodnichenko (2015), who examine predictability of forecast errors from forecast revisions.
P. Bordalo+3 more
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Deconstructing Monetary Policy Surprises: The Role of Information Shocks
Central bank announcements simultaneously convey information about monetary policy and the central bank's assessment of the economic outlook. This paper disentangles these two components and studies their effect on the economy using a structural vector ...
Marek Jarociński, P. Karadi
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We document three remarkable features of the Opower program, in which social comparison-based home energy reports are repeatedly mailed to more than six million households nationwide.
Hunt Allcott, Todd Rogers
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Digital technology is the representation of information in bits. This technology has reduced the cost of storage, computation, and transmission of data.
Avi Goldfarb, Catherine Tucker
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Designing Information Provision Experiments
Information provision experiments allow researchers to test economic theories and answer policy-relevant questions by varying the information set available to respondents.
Christopher Roth
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Narratives About the Macroeconomy
We provide evidence on narratives about the macroeconomy—the stories people tell to explain macroeconomic phenomena—in the context of a historic surge in inflation.
Peter André+3 more
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Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Pricing and Collusion
Increasingly, algorithms are supplanting human decision-makers in pricing goods and services. To analyze the possible consequences, we study experimentally the behavior of algorithms powered by Artificial Intelligence (Q-learning) in a workhorse ...
Emilio Calvano+3 more
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