New initiatives are under way to improve governance, including guidelines from supervisory standard-setting bodies such as the Basel Committee on banking supervision. These initiatives should help, but more is needed to change board culture and behavior. Financial supervisors have an important...

This article explores new methods for gathering and analyzing spatially rich demographic data using mobile phones. It describes a pilot study (the Human Mobility Project) in which volunteers around the world were successfully recruited to share GPS and cellular tower information on their...

Taxation systems for publicly-owned forests should be founded on a government's constitutional right of radical tenure, simultaneously recognising the rights of forest-dependent stakeholders to share benefits and responsibilities. Complex taxes may be historically explicable but are open to...

A theoretical model is developed which yields the prediction that firms in more highly concentrated industries will be more likely to practice employment discrimination than other firms. The model is tested for both race and sex discrimination. The results generally confirm that firms in more...

After a survey of the empirical studies of Monsen, Chiu, and Cooley, of Kamerschen, and of Larner on the effects of the separation of ownership from control, this paper presents a study which shows that among firms with a high degree of monopoly power, management-controlled firms report...