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The residents had been sent letters saying they had won a Spanish lottery but needed to disclose bank account information to claim their prize.
As befits a man who won the Nobel prize for his work on asymmetric information, Mr Stiglitz dwells on the market imperfections and misaligned incentives that distorted decisions made by everyone from mortgage originators to credit-rating agencies.
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The prize is biennial and as such more information will be provided in 2016.
The real prize, though, is processing battlefield information.
This prize will bring understandable, easily accessible health information and metrics to consumers on their mobile devices, pointing them to earlier actions for care.
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Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001 for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information.
Such predictions are often based on a one-sided interpretation of the ideas of Ronald Coase, a Nobel-prize-winning economist, says Phil Agre, a professor of information studies at the University of California at Los Angeles.
All the information is available free, and there's a Challenge Prize for the best use of it.
Indeed, a chunk of that prize money will go toward a market researcher to collect that blizzard of information as quickly as possible.
At the ceremony for the World Press Freedom Prize, the Director-General pointed out, however, that freedom of information is not enough.
The Tricorder X PRIZE aims to incentivize consumer empowerment in healthcare by extending the reach of health information and services to more people.
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For this was the analogy used in a paper about asymmetrical information that went on to win George Akerloff, its author, the Nobel Prize.
Crick, along with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins, was given the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for "discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".
The prize will be awarded at a special event in Geneva, Switzerland, parallel to the World Summit for the Information Society, on December 11.
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