Many controversies that beset the digital economy turn on the role of advertising and its use of personal data. We examine the trade-off between privacy and ad targeting accuracy from the advertisers' perspective. By exploiting Apple's gradual restriction, and ultimately the abolition of ad...

This publication outlines the methodological variations in U.S. News and World Report's annual law school rankings between 1990 and 2010. A law school's ranking is based upon its overall score on a number of weighted attributes. When comparing school rankings over time, it is therefore useful to...

We show that U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol is straightforward under political economy considerations. The reason is that U.S. compliance costs exceed low willingness to pay for dealing with global warming in the U.S. The withdrawal had a crucial impact on the concretion of the Protocol...