The problem of the uninsured cannot be fully understood without considering the role of non-market alternatives to 'market insurance' called 'self-insurance' and 'self-protection' (SISP), including the public 'health care safety-net' system. We tackle the problem by formulating a...

News consumption is moving online. If this move fundamentally changes how news is produced and consumed it will have important ramifications for politics. In this chapter we formulate a model of the supply and demand of news online that is motivated by descriptive features of online news...

Rechnungslegung und Publizität stehen vor neuen Herausforderungen. Vor allem den Kapitalmarkt sollen sie mit entscheidungsrelevanten Informationen versorgen. In dieser Arbeit wird untersucht, inwiefern die bestehenden Strukturen dieser Aufgabe gerecht werden. Basierend auf der Unmöglichkeit,...