Urs Birchler, Monika Bütler

Information Economics (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This important text, an invaluable guide to all students of microeconomics, game theory and information economics, is unique in that it allies information economics to a variety of real world situations through the use of case studies and examples.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134190577
• Artikelnr.: 47386492

Autorenporträt

Urs Birchler is Director at the Swiss National Bank and a former member of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. He has taught at the universities of Zurich, Berne, St. Gallen and Leipzig.

Monika Butler is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of St. Gallen, CESifo Fellow and CEPR affiliate.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Why Study Information Economics? 2. How to Read this Book? Part 1:
Information as an Economic Good 3. What is Information? 4. The Value of
Information 5. The Optimal Amount of Information 6. The Production of
Information Part 2: How the Market Aggregates Information 7. From
Information to Prices 8. Knowing Facts or Reading Thoughts 9. Coordination
Problems 10. Learning and Cascades 11. The Macroeconomics of Information
Part 3: The Economics of Information Asymmetries 12. The winner's Curse 13.
Hidden Information and Self-Selection 14. Optimal Contracts 15. The
Revelation Principle 16. Creating Incentives Part 4: The Economics of
Self-Knowledge 17. Me versus Myself