• Background. This paper explores associations of computer compromise events in relationship to web browsing activity over a population of computers. • Aim. Our hypothesis was that computers are more likely to be compromised in comparison to other computers when the computer regularly browses to web sites prior to other computers visiting the same site (early adopters) or browses to unique web ...

The compromise e¤ect arises when options near the “middle”of a choice set are more appealing. The compromise e¤ect poses conceptual and practical problems for economic research: by in‡uencing choices, it distorts revealed preferences, biasing researchers’inferences about deep (i.e., domain general) preferences. We propose and estimate an econometric model that disentangles and identi…es both de...