Performance and Experience: YOUARENOWHERE by Andrew Schneider

SECRECY AND SAFETY by Andrew

We employ a simple two-period model to show that the use of confidential settlement as a strategy for a firm facing tort litigation leads to lower average product safety than that which would be produced if a firm were committed to openness. Moreover, confidentiality can even lead to declining average product safety over time. We also show that a rational risk-neutral consumer’s response to a m...

Beamer by Example Andrew

There are a variety of LATEX classes which can be used to produce “overhead slides” for presentations. One of these, beamer, provides flexible and powerful environments which can be used to create slides and PDF-based documents suitable for presentations. Although the class is extensively documented, first-time users may prefer learning about this class using a collection of graduated examples....

Students ’ Experience of University Space : An Exploratory Study Andrew

The last decade has seen a wave of new building across British universities, so that it would appear that despite the virtualization discourses around higher education, space still matters in learning. Yet studies of student experience of the physical space of the university are rather lacking. This paper explores the response of one group of students to learning spaces, including virtual ones,...

Ghostbusting: The UK Experience of Inflation Targeting by Andrew Haldane, Bank of England

‘Recognizing Safety and Liveness’ by Alpern and Schneider

What is liveness? “Good things do happen” Or at least will happen eventually. There is not a timing constraint in this model. For example, consider the following “live event”: Nuclear Winter. Sure bad things happen, but it has been an inspiration for much art so something good about it has happened. Liveness is usually related to well-foundedness. In logic, well-foundedness means that for a bin...