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...event, hosted by the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation and the Allston Brighton Green Space Advocates, featured a special presentation by Juan Jose Sanchez, a masters degree candidate at Tufts University School of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning who presented evidence from his thesis that surveyed the interest of green spaces in the Latino community of Allston Brighton...
Like in Akerlof’s used-car market, the OCR platform presents employers with two categories of lemons (though others exist)—the disinterested applicant and the opportunitistic one. The former may not initially be interested in the job at all but feigns interest once granted an interview. This represents an error in selection against the interests of applicants who would like offers from the jobs they prefer most. But because of uncertainty in the market, interviews and offers are misallocated from those who should ideally receive them, those most qualified and committed for a given job?...
...Korn said that more specific guidelines would develop through precedents and reaffirmed the importance of formulating a University policy, rather than allowing the government to dictate conflict of interest policy, a concern that has arisen in the past...
Smith, who refrained from commenting on the ongoing budgeting process at yesterday’s meeting, found a moment to close his eyes, as Vice Provost for Research David Korn responded to questions about the possibility of a new financial conflict of interest policy...
...unclear follow-up could render it unusable." And Janis Emmanouilidis, an analyst at the European Policy Center, a Brussels-based think tank, believes it could backfire. "One million people is a low threshold and it risks falling prey to a 'tyranny of minorities' backed by resourceful and well-organized interest groups," he says. (Read: "Is the European Union Exporting Torture Devices...