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Financial Decision Making with Endogenous Information Acquisition

Project description

Investigating information acquisition in financial situations

One of the many questions the economic sciences are trying to understand is the effects of varying data among market agents and the acquisition of data within markets. The ERC-funded Endogenous_Info project aims to investigate these questions and increase our understanding of the acquisition and impact of the use of improved data in heterogeneous opportunities. To accomplish this, the project will employ a pioneering approach that incorporates non-trivial heterogeneity in the setting of endogenous information acquisition. Ultimately, the objective is to develop micro-foundations for informed trading and arrive at a conclusive understanding of the macro-level implications of diverse information on global economic phenomena.

Objective

Are financial markets informationally efficient? Are some economic agents more informed than others? What is the impact of such heterogeneity on asset prices? These questions, of great economic significance, have permeated academic and business circles over the last few decades. Despite significant progress on the theoretical and empirical fronts relatively little is known about how information is endogenously acquired and processed in markets by agents with differential access to information and facing heterogeneous opportunities.

Using the novel setting of endogenous information acquisition with non-trivial heterogeneity the project has two goals: (A) to lay out micro foundations for informed trading in investment and corporate settings using the contexts of illegal insider trading and household finance; (B) to investigate macro implications of heterogeneous information for global economic phenomena such as income inequality, organizational design, and market power.

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Host institution

IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE
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€ 1 588 958,75
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SOUTH KENSINGTON CAMPUS EXHIBITION ROAD
SW7 2AZ LONDON
United Kingdom

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Region
London Inner London — West Westminster
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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