“Voluntary” Compliance with Mandatory Rules

Voluntary Audits versus Mandatory Audits

Exploiting a natural experiment in which voluntary audits replace mandatory audits for U.K. private companies, we analyze whether imposing audits suppresses valuable information about the types of companies that would voluntarily choose to be audited. We control for the assurance benefits of auditing to isolate the role signaling plays by focusing on companies that are audited under both regime...

Comparing Voluntary and Mandatory Gameplay

Play is commonly considered to be a voluntary activity. Game designers generally believe that gameplay is essentially different when play is obligatory. Such a belief may be a challenge for serious games, as instruction is usually mandatory. This article describes the outcomes of two experiments on the impact of voluntariness on the learning effect of a serious game. In the first experiment fre...

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Quarantine Stressing Voluntary Compliance

A 1-day table-top exercise in San Diego, California, in December 2004 emphasized voluntary compliance with home quarantine to control an emerging infectious disease outbreak. The exercise heightened local civilian-military collaboration in public health emergency management. Addressing concerns about lost income by residents in quarantine was particularly challenging.

Is routine testing mandatory or voluntary?