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What if Adam Smith Debated an AI Economist: A Thought Experiment on Markets, Ethics, and the Invisible Hand

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can AI‐driven capitalism sustain the moral preconditions of market order? We stage a dialogue between Adam Smith and a steel‐manned “EconAI” to test four Moral‐Market‐Fitness criteria: trustworthiness, fairness, non‐domination, and contestability, across 11 dilemmas.
Alexandra‐Codruța Bîzoi   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Algorithmic Collusion: Corporate Accountability and the Application of Art. 101 TFEU

open access: yesEuropean Papers
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2024 9(3), 1048-1061 | European Forum Insight of 21 January 2025 | (Table of Contents) I. Introduction. - II. Corporate accountability for algorithmic behaviour. - ii.1. Predictable
Maria Giacalone
doaj   +1 more source

Interception in Distance-Vector Routing Networks

open access: yes, 2016
Despite the large effort devoted to cybersecurity research over the last decades, cyber intrusions and attacks are still increasing. With respect to routing networks, route hijacking has highlighted the need to reexamine the existing protocols that ...
Burstein, David   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Data Portability and Interoperability Between Digital Platforms

open access: yesJournal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the effects of regulation requiring data portability and interoperability in digital platform competition. Data portability and interoperability have the effect of eliminating switching costs between platforms and enlarging network externalities but increasing the risk of data breaches.
Jeong‐Yoo Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Mutual fund director compensation

open access: yesJournal of Financial Research, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine director compensation using a large sample of hand‐compiled U.S. mutual fund data. We find that director compensation is positively correlated with observable productive characteristics—workload, experience, and demographics—that capture the benefits from the directors’ monitoring effort.
John Adams   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Innovation, Licensing, and Competition: Evidence From Genetically Engineered Crops

open access: yesThe Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We provide a novel empirical analysis of the role of technology licensing, between competitors, for genetically engineered (GE) traits in the US seed industry. We extend the standard differentiated‐product Bertrand pricing model to include trait licensing, which permits us to recover marginal costs and (otherwise unobserved) royalty rates ...
GianCarlo Moschini, Edward D. Perry
wiley   +1 more source

The Determinants of Negotiated Pharmaceutical Prices

open access: yesThe Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We focus on the determinants of pharmaceutical drug prices. Using data from the Brazilian pharmaceutical market, we find large variations in drug prices across buyers, drug classes, and time periods. Our estimation results provide evidence that transaction‐specific determinants between buyers and sellers (e.g., transaction volume, buyer's ...
Ralph B. Siebert   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Organized Crime, Corruption, and Economic Growth

open access: yesJournal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 535-560, March 2025.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we study the relationship between organized crime, corruption, and economic growth on a data set from Italian regions for the period 1996–2013. Our working hypothesis is that organized crime can embezzle part of the public expenditure aimed at productive uses by threatening and bribing public officers. To assess the consequences
Tamara Fioroni   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
wiley   +1 more source

AI Alignment Versus AI Ethical Treatment: 10 Challenges

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A morally acceptable course of AI development should avoid two dangers: creating unaligned AI systems that pose a threat to humanity and mistreating AI systems that merit moral consideration in their own right. This paper argues these two dangers interact and that if we create AI systems that merit moral consideration, simultaneously avoiding ...
Adam Bradley, Bradford Saad
wiley   +1 more source

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