that most of the information in the report cards does not reliably measure quality of care, but a subset of seven measures … does. Using a sample of more than 3,000 nursing homes with information on two waves, we find a significant improvement in …

Kosovo (EUOK) in improving the programming and implementation of information and communication (IC) Programmes funded by … for the enlargement process. However, a strengthening of the strategic approach to information and communication would be … desirable. Information and communication programmes use available resources efficiently, yet weaknesses can be found in internal …

to monitor and control information and communication flows. However, as well as unleashing tremendous new opportunities …The rapid evolution of information and communications technology (ICT) and associated digital communications over the … past two decades has dramatically changed communication practices across the world. This has had profound implications for …

mass media, the Internet has become a space to allow for multilateral communication, searching for information, making …

We study communication in a static Cournot duopoly model under the assumption that the firms have unverifiable private … information about their costs. We show that cheap talk between the firms cannot transmit any information. However, if the firms … can communicate through a third party, communication can be informative even when it is not substantiated by any …

information transmission is possible with unmediated communication. …This note reconsiders communication between an informed expert and an uninformed decision maker with a strategic … mediator in a discrete Crawford and Sobel (1982) setting. We show that a strategic mediator may improve communication even when …