Information Choice in Macroeconomics and Finance / / Laura L. Veldkamp.

Most theories in economics and finance predict what people will do, given what they know about the world around them. But what do people know about their environments? The study of information choice seeks to answer this question, explaining why economic players know what they know--and how the info...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2012
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (184 p.) :; 3 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART I. Preliminaries
  • Chapter 1. Why Study Information Choice?
  • Chapter 2. Bayesian Updating
  • Chapter 3. Measuring Information Flows
  • Chapter 4. Games with Heterogeneous Information
  • PART II. Information Choice with Complementarity in Actions
  • Chapter 5. Disclosing Public Information
  • Chapter 6. Informational Inertia and Price-Setting
  • PART III. Information Choice with Substitutability in Actions
  • Chapter 7. Information Choice and Investment Choice
  • Chapter 8. Returns to Scale in Information
  • Chapter 9. Information as an Aggregate Shock
  • PART IV. Measurement
  • Chapter 10. Testing Information Theories
  • Chapter 11. Conclusions
  • References
  • Index