Pre-Decisional Information Acquisition: Do We Pay TooMuch for Information?
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Keywords
sequential information acquisition; ambiguity; Bayesian updating; financial decision-making;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
- G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
- G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2020-12-21 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2020-12-21 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-UPT-2020-12-21 (Utility Models and Prospect Theory)
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