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Dating Apps and the Right to an Explanation

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that in countries where dating apps have become the primary means of meeting romantic partners and promise to help users find love, individuals should be entitled to access certain information about how their algorithms function. Specifically, we advocate for a legal right to an explanation that addresses the following, not
Bouke de Vries, Kristian González Barman   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Protecting Intermediate Innovations When Ideas Are Scarce: Patents or Secrecy?

Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Patenting an intermediate research innovation can lead to competition for the development of a final commercial innovation and potentially induce wasteful duplicative R&D efforts. This study examines the effects of different protection strategies and patent life on the incentives to protect an intermediate innovation by considering a two‐stage
Bonwoo Koo, Jangho Yang, Brian D. Wright
wiley   +1 more source

Nobel Prizes [PDF]

, 2019
openaire   +2 more sources

Research Direction and Science Evaluation: The Role of Coherence and Alignment

Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The decisions of funding agencies greatly influence the direction of scientific research; however, our understanding of how applicants' research directions affect the selection process remains limited. In this study, we investigate how a project's coherence with a scientist's previous work and its alignment with current scientific trends ...
Charles Ayoubi, Sandra Barbosu, Michele Pezzoni, Fabiana Visentin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial: 90th anniversary of the 1932 Sherrington and Adrian Nobel prize: new insights into initiation and propagation of action potentials and behavioural modulation of reflexes. [PDF]

Front Cell Neurosci
Winlow W.
europepmc   +1 more source

What Are Asset Price Bubbles? A Survey on Definitions of Financial Bubbles

Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Financial bubbles and crashes have repeatedly caused economic turmoil notably but not just during the 2008 financial crisis. However, both in the popular press as well as scientific publications, the meaning of bubble is sometimes unspecified.
Michael Heinrich Baumann, Anja Janischewski   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do robots boost productivity? A quantitative meta‐study

Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This meta‐study analyzes the productivity effects of industrial robots. More than 1800 estimates from 85 primary studies are collected. The meta‐analytic evidence suggests that robotization has so far provided, at best, a small boost to productivity. There is strong evidence of publication bias in the positive direction.
Florian Schneider
wiley   +1 more source

Carbon Pricing versus Green Finance

The Journal of Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Green finance—including environmental, social, and governance investing and sustainable finance regulations—is widespread, but can it substitute for carbon pricing in fighting climate change? In a unified model, I show that (i) when carbon prices reflect the social cost of carbon, green finance should not be used; (ii) when carbon prices are ...
LASSE HEJE PEDERSEN
wiley   +1 more source

Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine in 2023: how to dupe the cellular innate immune system using modified RNA for therapeutic treatment. [PDF]

Pflugers Arch
Medenbach J, Tschochner H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Guaranteed Basic Income from the Perspective of Self‐Determination Theory

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In capitalistic societies the concepts of income and labour are inseparable, and as such, providing all citizens with an unconditional living wage is a contentious issue. Capitalist ideals that emphasize individual effort, competition, and financial prosperity have spurred tremendous economic growth but underestimate human motivation and have ...
Joshua L. Howard
wiley   +1 more source