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Joe is one a small group of influential economists who brought theorizing aboutdevelopment processes to a new level. In trying to understand the reasons why low pooreconomies remain so, he was among the first to appreciate the importance of informationand contracting issues. His seminal...
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Mass media can play a key role in enabling citizens to monitor the actions of incumbents and to use this information in … ofthe approach taken here is to focus on incentives the media have to produceand disseminate information.[...] …
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In this paper we develop the rst estimator of the covariance matrix that relies solely onforward-looking information …. This estimator only uses price information from a cross-sectionof plain-vanilla options. In an out-of-sample study for US … according to the 1/N rule. The outperformance is strong in periodsof high information asymmetry, whereas in quiet periods all …
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The purpose of this essay is to assess the automatic exchange of information as described in EU Directive2003/48 of 3 … services) of increasingly extensive, detailed and intimate information abouttheir clients and in the automatic processing of … that information by ever more powerful and sophisticatedsystems.... …
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. The papershows that a tag-to-region assignment with an accuracy of 67% can beachieved by using gaze information. In …
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We propose a new approach for mobile visualization andinteraction of temporal information by integrating supportfor …
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Conventional security infrastructures in the Internet cannot be directlyadopted to ambient systems, especially if based on short-range communi-cation channels: Personal, mobile devices are used and the participants arepresent during communication, so privacy protection is a crucial issue....
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Using a unique dataset containing separate information on the base andbonus pay of over a million workers, we provide …
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members of an information sharingCooperative. Once collected, information about the location of productive sh-ing sites is an … excludable public good. We show that independent shermen donot internalize the full value of information and do not replicate rst …-best searchpatterns. An information sharing Cooperative faces a free-riding problem as eachmember prefers that another undertake costly …
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This paper reviews and synthesizes the theory of information economics and empiricalevidence on how information changes … the behavior of consumers, households and firms. I show thatconsumers respond to new information in food experiments but …
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