Providing and accessing scientific information will increasingly follow a strict market regimen. Needed is a system architecture that supports an information market that is open, heterogeneous and dynamic. The objective of the paper is to find answers to the design of novel intermediaries that serve two purposes: to make the market truly open by easing the integration of existing and new provid...

My research studies the economic impact of IT-driven changes in the availability of market information. In particular, my dissertation examines the impact of Internet-enabled market transparency on consumer demand, firm strategy, and the broader impact on a market’s structure. My long term goal is to develop a modeling and empirical basis for a theory of market transparency in electronic market...

Sellers increasingly compete with innovative Internet-based selling mechanisms, revealing or concealing market information. Transparency strategy involves design choices by firms that influence the availability and accessibility of information about products and prices. We develop decision support models for suppliers to set prices for online mechanisms with different transparency levels. We th...

Although excessive transparency and accountability demands can have a counterproductive effect on organisational performance (Bovens 2005), longstanding hierarchical accountability structures to ensure financial conformance in English local government continue to endure. Interestingly however, the previously top-down regime for performance accountability in English local government has been rep...

Using Rawls's theory of justice, this paper addresses the empirical question of whether the socially responsible market economy can help explain the current situation in financial freedom, as well as its recent variation across countries. Utilizing annual data from selected countries of Middle East, North Africa, Asia and Oceania, and static panel estimation techniques, we provide evidence whic...