In this paper, the earlier studies by us on production of hadrons in a nuclear environment are reviewed. A string-breaking model for initial and quantum-kinetic Giessen-Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck (GiBUU) transport used to describe final state interactions newly formed (pre)hadrons. The latter determined both formation times time-development hadron–hadron cross section. First, it is shown that ...

In this essay I argue that it is logically and practically possible to secure the right to privacy under conditions of increasing social transparency. The argument is predicated on a particular analysis of the right to privacy as the right to the personal space required for the exercise of practical rationality. It also rests on the distinction between the unidirectional transparency required b...

This paper argues how transparency can increase trust and therefore indirectly enhances the results of Public Private Partnerships in complex construction projects. Complex construction projects, e.g. large infrastructure or urban development projects, with public client organizations and private contractors, frequently run into problems. Public Private Partnership projects are characterised by...

We provide a multiperiod model of political competition in which voters imperfectly observe the electoral promises made to other voters. Imperfect observability generates an incentive for candidates to offer excessive transfers even if voters are homogeneous and taxation is distortionary. Government spending is larger than in a world of perfect observability. Transfers are partly financed throu...

In an environment of Over-The-Counter trading with asymmetric information about the quality of the counterparty, we study traders’ incentives to screen their counterparties under different clearing arrangements. When traders can choose the clearing arrangement, they decide which types of transactions to clear under each arrangement, with significant consequences for transparency and collateral ...