How Effective Are Federally Mandated Information Disclosures?

How Effective Are Federally Mandated Information Disclosures?

Government mandates to disclose information are a standard response to problems of asymmetric information. We examine recent major U.S. regulations issued between 2008 and 2013 to identify disclosure mandates and look for quantitative assessments of their effectiveness in improving comprehension. We also reviewed the retrospective regulatory review reports of four federal agencies – prepared pu...

Compliance to the fair information practices: How are the Fortune 500 handling online privacy disclosures?

Privacy concerns and practices, especially those dealing with the acquisition and use of consumer personal information, are at the forefront of global business and social issues associated with the information age. Our research examined the privacy policies of the Fortune 500 to assess the substance and content of their stated information practices and the degree to which they adhered to the fa...

How Effective are Emission Taxes

*Ishikawa: Hitotsubashi University, Kunitachi, Tokyo 186-8601, Japan. Fax: 81-42-580-8195; E-mail: [email protected]. Kuroda: Nagoya Gakuin University, Seto, Aichi 480-1298, Japan. Phone: 81-561-42-0350; E-mail: [email protected]. We are grateful to an anonymous referee, seminar participants at Nagoya Gakuin University and RIETI and the participants of Kobe COE One-Day Conference on Labor M...

How Effective Are Institutional Reforms?

Lowering the federally mandated cannabinoid immunoassay cutoff increases true-positive results.

Proposed changes to the Health and Human Services Guidelines for forensic urine drug testing will lower the required cannabinoid immunoassay cutoff concentration from 100 to 50 micrograms/L. We investigated the effect of this change on the sensitivity, specificity, and efficiency of eight cannabinoid immunoassays: Syva Emit d.a.u. 100; Syva Emit II 100; Syva Emit d.a.u. 50; Syva Emit II 50; Roc...