We use an incentivized field experiment to test whether Chinese consumers underinvest in energy efficiency. document that providing information on the costs of lightbulbs significantly increases their willingness pay for energy-efficient bulbs, even among those who previously overestimated savings from Our results indicate are imperfectly informed, but neither biased beliefs nor salience can ex...

The field of intelligent products is on the advance. Nowadays, products are still generally considered in terms of function and design. Thereby it is neglected that enhanced capabilities of products initiate a rethinking of conventional approaches for production or supply chain control, fault detection, lifecycle monitoring or part authentication and protection against counterfeit products. In ...

States play an increasing role in setting U.S. health policy. A survey of 292 state government policymakers finds that officials are overwhelmed by the volume of information they receive and have a strong preference for information that is concise and more relevant to current debates. Younger officials are more likely to use electronic information, while older policymakers prefer printed materi...

In this paper we propose to integrate Information Extraction and Adaptive Personalization in order to empower information access and Web search experience. We describe the PIE (Personalized Information Extraction) architecture which exploits zz-structures for organizing information and user profiles for capturing personal user interests in digital libraries. We apply our model to Bibliomed syst...