Rational inattention in games: experimental evidence

D Almog, D Martin - Experimental Economics, 2024 - Springer
To investigate whether attention responds rationally to strategic incentives, we
experimentally implement a buyer-seller game in which a fully informed seller makes a take …

Competing to commit: Markets with rational inattention

CM Cusumano, F Fabbri, F Pieroth - American Economic Review, 2024 - pubs.aeaweb.org
Two homogeneous-good firms compete for a consumer's unitary demand. The consumer is
rationally inattentive and pays entropy costs to process information about firms' offers …

[PDF][PDF] Rational Voter Learning, Issue Alignment, and Polarization

M Vaeth - 2024 - cerge.cuni.cz
We model electoral competition between two parties when voters can rationally learn about
their political positions through flexible information acquisition. Rational voter learning …

Price competition, information acquisition, and product differentiation perception

G Biglaiser, J Gu, F Li - Information Acquisition, and Product …, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
We consider the equilibrium interplay between sellers' price competition and consumers'
perception of product differentiation. We analyze a situation where, before trading …

Voter Learning, Unidimensional Ideology, and Polarization

M Vaeth - … Ideology, and Polarization (November 21, 2023), 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
We model a spatial, two-party election where voters can flexibly acquire costly information
about their ideal points before voting. In equilibrium, learning about ideal points creates …