Public Consultation: Adding Value or Impeding Policy?

Contracting on Credit Ratings : Adding Value to Public Information ∗ Christine

We provide a rationale for the use for credit ratings even when ratings contain no new information about a risky security (such as in the case of sovereign debt). In our model, an investor contracts with an manager who invests in a risky bond. The bond’s return depends in part on the state. The state is known to both investor and manager, but unverifiable to a third party and therefore non-cont...

Public Value Mapping and Science Policy Evaluation

Here we present the framework of a new approach to assessing the capacity of research programs to achieve social goals. Research evaluation has made great strides in addressing questions of scientific and economic impacts. It has largely avoided, however, a more important challenge: assessing (prospectively or retrospectively) the impacts of a given research endeavor on the non-scientific, none...

Improving Exploratory Search Interfaces: Adding Value or Information Overload?

One method for supporting more exploratory forms of search has been to include a compound of new interface features, such as facets, previews, collection points, synchronous communication, and note-taking spaces, within a single search interface. One side effect, however, is that some compounds can be confusing, rather than supportive during search. Faceted browsing, for example, conveys domain...

Football-specific fitness testing: adding value or confirming the evidence?

The recent point-counter-point exchange arising from the article by Mendez-Villanueva and Buchheit (Mendez-Villanueva A, & Buchheit M. (2013) Football-specific fitness testing: adding value or confirming the evidence? Journal of Sports Sciences, 31, 1503-1508) generated an interesting debate on the real world utility of fitness testing in professional association football (soccer). In the prese...

Background Document on Public Consultation