equipment. Most frequently used programs are accounting information systems, stock control and specialized programs for plant …

focused on studying either the impact of the traditional monitoring and enforcement practices or the impact of information … programs. In this paper, we perform an empirical analysis of the impact of both traditional enforcement and information … penalties) and emerging (information) enforcement strategies. Our results suggest that British Columbia's list of polluters has …

repeated negative institutional shocks and how such shocks influence the development of an information matrix as well as the … transmission of information across time and generations. We show that African-Americans who were less likely to be influenced by … negative institutional shocks and the information stock created from these experiences, have similar self-employment rates to …

This paper studies the incentives of short-lived agents to acquire costly private information in the presence of public … signals arising from market interaction. It characterizes the social learning process, that is the revelation of information … by public signals, and the information externalities involved. The analysis provides insights on the scope for government …