A Study of the Effects of the Dissemination and Circulation of Economic Information on Failures, Disequilibrium, and Instability in Economic Activities

本研究的目的是调查三个经济问题：(i)个别公司披露和利用经济信息的动机；（ii）收集和提供经济信息的行为；（iii）设计收集和提供经济信息的制度。为了调查这些问题，本研究进行了以下研究：(1)调查经济信息如何在单个企业内部存储和管理。(2) EDI/CALS的现状调查。(3)构建个体企业的经济模型，以显示企业披露和利用经济信息的动机。(4)经济主体收集和提供经济信息的行为分析。

The objective of this study was to investigate three economic problems :(i)Incentives for the disclosure and the utilization of economic information by individual firms, (ii) The behavior of collecting and supplying economic information, and (iii) Desinging institutions for collecting and supplying economic information. In order to investigate these problems, this study conducted the followings :(1)Investigation of how economic information is stored and managed within individual firms.(2)Investigation of the current status of EDI/CALS.(3)Construction of economic models of individual firms to show the incentive for disclosing and utilizing economic information.(4)Analysis of the behavior of an economic agent collecting and supplying economic information.