As in most industries, in health care, information is a competitive asset, and we expect that health care providers may have incentive to protect their information from competitors. This study aims to understand how this incentive to protect information may be a barrier to the development of a...

Geographical Indications certify the link between quality of some agro-food productions and their territory. For these products the premium price is derived from both certification and reputational effect of the territory, since there are products without Geographical Indication that have a rent...

This paper studies the relationship between transparency on the consumer side and productivity of firms. We show that more transparent markets are characterized by higher average productivity as firms with low productivity abstain from entering these markets.

Two forces have reshaped global securities markets in the last decade: Exchanges operate at much faster speeds and the trading landscape has become more fragmented. In order to analyze the positive and normative implications of these evolutions, we study a framework that captures (i) exchanges'...

Freelancers face cold-start problems in online labor markets: getting hired is very difficult without ratings, while obtaining a rating is impossible unless already having been hired. According to economic theory and empirical evidence, advertising can serve as a signal of product quality for...

Im Mittelpunkt der Darstellung steht das individuelle Informationshandeln im beruflichen Kontext, d.h. die effektive Nutzung von Informationen am Arbeitsplatz. Dieser Inhalt wird mit dem Begriff „Persönliches Informationsmanagement“ – im Gegensatz zum betrieblichen Informationsmanagement...

We determine the optimal health policy mix when the average utility of patients in-creases with the supply of drugs available in a therapeutic class. Health risk coverage rely on two instruments, copayment and reference pricing, that affect the supported risk composed by health expenses and...

The current business environment is characterized by a multitude of influence factors within a global context that is continuously changing, in which all types of organizations operate. These factors are pressuring the businesses, forcing them to adapt to the constantly changing environment....

Total Quality Management is implemented in economic organizations and non-economic actions, specific management actions and decisions of each. The quality of strategic planning and vision must be based on development organization, to ensure continued competitiveness and sustainable development...

We propose to establish wine rankings using scores that depend on the differences between favorable and unfavorable opinions about each wine, according to the Borda rule. Unlike alternative approaches and specifications, this method is well-defined even if the panelists' quality relations are...