In one of the most ambitious forms of environmental decision-making, representatives of interested parties - environmentalists, developers, farmers, loggers, miners, etc. - are charged with the responsibility of developing a set of public policies that is acceptable to all of them. Although this...

We implement a one-week partial sleep restriction protocol to investigate the effect of sleep deprivation on joint production in a standard voluntary contributions mechanism (VCM) experiment. Additionally, the effect of sleep restriction on an individual's likelihood of sending costly peer...

When consumers trade financial products, they typically use well-identified service providers that operate under government regulation. In theory, decentralized platforms like Ethereum can offer trading services ‘on-chain’ without an obvious entry point for regulators. Fortunately for...

Central banks around the world are evaluating the option of issuing a centrally banked digital currency (CBDC). There are a number of policy objectives attributed to offering a CBDC. Curiously, some of the stated objectives are contradictory. This confusion is a consequence of a very broad...