Social value of public information re-examined |
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Authors: | Hassouna Moussa Takeshi Murota |
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Institution: | Acadia University, Wolfville, N.S., BOP 1X0, Canada;Hitotsubashi University, Kunitachi, Tokyo 186, Japan |
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Abstract: | As an extension of Hirshleifer's horse race example into a competitive exchange market framework, this paper quantitatively re-examines the condition under which social value of public information can be positive. For a prototype economy of two risk averse traders, we prove that their discordance of beliefs makes the social value of a certain class of inconclusive information either positive or negative depending on whether their endowments are or are not predominantly associated with states they regard as more probable, whereas it has been known that information acquisition is always socially wasteful under concordant beliefs. |
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