This week “The Economist explains” blog is given over to economics. For six days until Saturday this blog will publish a short explainer on one seminal economics idea. MARKETS frequently present ...

The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 was awarded jointly to George A Akerlof of University of California in Berkeley, Michael Spence of Stanford University and Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia ...

Noah Smith is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He was an assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University, and he blogs at Noahpinion.

Will Coinbase’s latest efforts help to level the user playing field? Perhaps, but more adoption, liquidity and regulation will also be needed. It has long been believed that investors possessing ...

One of the first economists to raise the issue of asymmetric information was George Akerlof, the Nobel Prize winner in Economics in 2002 along with Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz. In a 'milestone' ...

The market imperfection of asymmetric information is the basis for three distinct efforts to explain corporate dividend policy. Mitigation of the informational asymmetries between managers and owners ...