Information provision experiments allow researchers to test economic theories and answer policy-relevant questions by varying the information set available respondents. We survey emerging literature using in economics discuss applications macroeconomics, finance, political economy, public economics, labor health economics. also design considerations provide best-practice recommendations on how ...

This paper studies the symmetric equilibria of a two-buyer, two-seller model of directed search in which sellers commit to information provision. More informed buyers have better differentiated private valuations and extract higher rents from trade. I establish how the characteristics of exogenously fixed sale mechanisms determine equilibrium information provision and show that competition gene...

The association of services to manufactured products, leading to service-enhanced products, is an important mechanism for value creation and differentiation. This is particularly relevant in the case of complex, highly customized and long-life products. Suitable servicing in this context typically requires the collaboration among multiple stakeholders. Furthermore, the involvement of the custom...

I certain categories, an important element of competition is the use of previews to signal information to potential consumers about product attributes. For example, the front page of a newspaper provides a preview to potential newspaper buyers before they purchase the product. In this context, a news provider can provide previews that are highly informative about the content of the news product...