An agent is a fiduciary and as such owes a duty of loyalty to his principal. This clear rule of equity is of long and distinguished pedigree. The law of England and Hong Kong are identical on this issue. Acting for two principals in respect of the same transaction is a clear breach of the duty...

This paper casts the economic and regulatory debate around digital platforms in a broader and more historical context. We emphasise that despite the considerable theoretical and policy-making discussion that focuses on the specific attributes of platforms-the presence of indirect network...

The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), a part of the US Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, requires the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to penalize hospitals with excess readmissions. We take an economic and operational (patient flow) perspective to analyze...

In this illuminating study of working life, leading experts in the sociology of work draw on decades of large-scale survey data to consider various notions of the quality of work in the Britain. Exploring data on hundreds of occupations, it charts why some occupations feel more rewarding than...