Information asymmetry is a term that gets used a lot in economics. It means that one party in a transaction has more information or better information than the other party—a common occurrence. The ...

Consumer-centric healthcare has been extolled as the centerpiece of a new model for managing both quality and price. However, information asymmetry in consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) is a ...

As the familiar adage goes, information is power, and those who have it hold sway over those who do not. Such a scenario is best demonstrated by information asymmetry, whereby one party in a ...

"Sorry Joe," ANA Group Executive Vice President Bill Duggan wrote in an op-ed published earlier this week, shooting down my Hail Mary endorsement that MFAs -- or made-for-advertising sites -- should ...

"Oh What Fun, It Is To Arb" Hum that to the tune of “Oh what fun, it is to ride, in a one-horse open sleigh.” Everyone knows about the concept of arbitrage. It’s basically “buy low, sell high.” It ...

In fast-paced environments with high stakes, emergency physicians have to quickly make the best decisions possible with imperfect or incomplete information. Under the circumstances, this information ...

At 6:49 a.m. New York time on Monday 23 March, roughly 6,200 Brent and West Texas Intermediate futures contracts changed hands in a single minute — a notional value of approximately $580 million. In ...

“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.” My old priest friend from Laguna Beach, Father Bob, would have referred to this as a ...

Security tokens provide many benefits to underlying assets, the most important of which is liquidity. However, liquidity doesn’t just happen because you build the technology to tokenize assets and the ...