number of highly productive 'star' scientists actively publishing genetic sequence discoveries. Great universities are likely … to grow and recruit star scientists, but their effect is separable from the universities. When the intellectual capital …

This essay reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on quality disclosure and certification. After comparing … quality disclosure with other quality assurance mechanisms and describing a brief history of quality disclosure, we address … government mandate disclosure? and (iii) Do certifiers necessarily report unbiased and accurate information? We further review …

Disclosure policies have the potential to help consumers and make markets more efficient. Yet, the effectiveness of … disclosure policies can be undermined if firms strategically make unfavorable information unnecessarily complicated to understand …. To explore the incentives for using complexity in disclosure, we implement a game of mandatory disclosure where senders …

as a result of voluntary disclosure and in turn increases firm value. This suggests that managers can causally influence … their cost of capital via voluntary disclosure …

disclosure policies we estimate a model of college demand. We find that disclosure changes college choice by reducing uncertainty …