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Disclosure: Psychology Changes Everything

We review literature examining the effects of laws and regulations that require public disclosure of information. These requirements are most sensibly imposed in situations characterized by misaligned incentives and asymmetric information between, for example, a buyer and seller or an advisor and advisee. We review the economic literature relevant to such disclosure, and then discuss how differ...

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COMMUNICATIONSTO THE EDITOR 551 arteriovenous oxygen content difference (C[a-v]02) equals 3; and the fractional concentration of oxygen in the inspired gas (F1o2) equals 0.40. From the oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve, the arterial oxygen saturation equals 0.90. Since C(a-v)O, equals 3, the venous oxygen saturation (Sv02) equals 0.75 approximately. Using these figures, the QS/QT equals 0.502. T...

Book Review: On Intelligence

It naturally makes researchers bristle when a new guy comes along and makes grand pronouncements that everyone else has missed the big idea. Stephan Wolfram encountered some of that with his 1192 page tome, “A New Kind of Science” where he argued that cellular automata do much better at simulating complex phenomena than more sophisticated models. It helps things not a bit when the new guy struc...

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