Corporate governance ratings as a means to reduce asymmetric information

Corporate governance under asymmetric information: Theory and evidence

Information and Communications Systems as a Means to Reduce Poverty

Extreme poverty, experienced by approximately 1.2 billion people, is considered by many to be the most significant crises in the world today. To give focus to the task of poverty reduction, in September 2000, the United Nations has established eight Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015. The goals cover many areas, including income, education, gender equality, children mortality, ...

Corporate Governance and Information Security

Information Disclosure and Corporate Governance

Disclosure is widely assumed to play an important role in corporate governance. Yet governance has not been the focus of previous academic analyses of disclosure. We consider disclosure in the context of corporate governance. We argue that disclosure is a two-edged sword. On one side, disclosure of information permits principals to make better decisions. On the other, it can create or exacerbat...

Collaborative Filtering as means to reduce information overload

One fundamental problem that exists with the World Wide Web is the difficulty involved in locating relevant material given the enormous quantities of information available. Existing systems try to tackle this problem by using spiders to locate, and indexes to provide access to, these resources. Although useful, there are a number of flaws associated with this approach. We describe an approach u...