As part of the Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework, nations are assessing progress over past decade in addressing underlying drivers that influence direct pressures on biodiversity and formulating new policies strategies for to come. For marine conservation, global protected area (MPA) coverage is still falling short 10% target set 2010. Here we show while this reflects a lack many low- middle-inc...

Abstract A self-fulfilling prophecy is, roughly, a prediction that brings about its own truth. Although true predictions are hard to fault, prophecies often regarded with suspicion. In this article, we vindicate suspicion by explaining what and is problematic them, paying special attention how their problems exacerbated through automated prediction. Our descriptive account of articulates the fo...

This paper reconciles the two explanations of a financial crisis, the self-fulfilling prophecy and the fundamental causes, in an empirically-relevant framework, by explicitly modeling the costly voluntary acquisition of information about fundamentals in a variant of Diamond and Dybvig (1983). In the “run” equilibrium investors engage in costly evaluation of projects, so that banks with lower-re...