This paper develops a tractable economic model of AJI that treats adoption as an information problem: users care about local reliability, but typically observe only coarse, global quality signals. In ...

Is lockdown an effective response to a pandemic, or would it be better to let individuals spontaneously reduce their risk of infection? Research published today suggests these two highly-debated ...

BROOKLINE, Mass. & SHEFFIELD, United Kingdom--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Policy Analysis Inc. (PAI) and BresMed, two leading health-economics and outcomes research consultancies, are pleased to announce that ...

LONDON - OCTOBER 07: In this photo illustration, a man looks at a graph representing the 12 month decline of the FTSE 100 share index on October 7, 2008 in London. Financial markets are still ...

Plastic is now becoming as much of a problem as it has been a solution. Some say the global plastic waste crisis has reached a critical tipping point, that the oceans are swimming with microplastics, ...

LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Monday’s 2018 Nobel economics prize can be looked at in two ways. On the bright side, it is an award for long-term thinking and common sense. Less charitably, Paul ...

Germany’s economic model is known for close relations between bosses and unions; the Mittelstand, the country’s world-leading manufacturing firms; and the political system’s federalism, which spreads ...