Arbeitspapier

The appeal of information transactions

An information transaction entails the purchase of information. Formally, it consists of an information structure together with a price. We develop an index of the appeal of information transactions, which is derived as a dual to the agent's preferences for information. The index of information transactions has a simple analytic characterization in terms of the relative entropy from priors to posteriors, and it also connects naturally with a recent index of riskiness.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 2012-13

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Mathematical and Quantitative Methods: General
Index Numbers and Aggregation; Leading indicators
Microeconomics: General
Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty: General
Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
Financial Economics: General
Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
Thema
informativeness
information transactions
Kullback-Leibler divergence
relative entropy
decision under uncertainty
investment
Blackwell ordering

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Cabrales, Antonio
Gossner, Olivier
Serrano, Roberto
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Brown University, Department of Economics
(wo)
Providence, RI
(wann)
2012

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Cabrales, Antonio
  • Gossner, Olivier
  • Serrano, Roberto
  • Brown University, Department of Economics

Entstanden

  • 2012

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