Information provision for social welfare via cheap technological media is now a widely available tool used by policy makers. Often, however, an ample supply of information does not translate into high consumption for information due to various frictions in demand, possibly stemming from...

Gold holdings with central banks are often considered to play a stabilizing role in times of crisis. This study performs a cross-country panel data analysis of developed and developing countries to determine whether gold holdings of central banks contribute to sovereign creditworthiness. Our...

Decision Review System (DRS) in cricket is a technology-based officiating aid used by umpires and players. Statistics reveal that bowlers tend to use DRS a higher number of times as compared to batsmen, but with lower success rates. We manifest that the bowling teams in Twenty-20 cricket are...

Do stronger intellectual property rights incentivize female participation in innovation? We provide new evidence on this question using a unique database of artificial intelligence patents publicly shared by the USPTO. Our identification strategy leverages China's WTO TRIPs accession, which led...