As observed in many countries, mobile banking can revolutionize the practice of payment transactions. This is especially true for developing countries, where mobile banking has the potential to open non-cash banking services to the unbanked. However, unlike in countries like Kenya and Ghana, in...

The consequences of traffic accidents are not only limited to road travellers (congestion, delays), but may also affect the area surrounding the incident, for instance, in the case of incidents involving release of chemical substances. A lack of a real-time assessment of the mobility...

Asymmetric information can distort market outcomes. I study how the online disclosure of information affects consumers' behavior and firms' incentives to upgrade product quality in markets where information is traditionally limited. I first build a model of consumer search with firms' endogenous...