CONTEXT Public disclosure of quality data on health maintenance organizations (HMOs) might improve public accountability, inform consumer decision making, and promote quality improvement. But, because disclosure is voluntary, some HMOs could subvert these objectives by refusing to release unfavorable data. OBJECTIVE To determine the association between HMO quality of care and withdrawal from ...

Disclosure of HIV status is routinely promoted as a public health measure to prevent transmission and enhance treatment adherence support. While studies show a range of positive and negative outcomes associated with disclosure, it has also been documented that disclosing is a challenging and ongoing process. This article aims to describe the role of health-care workers in Central and Nairobi pr...

Disclosure of HIV status has been the focus of three decades of research, which have revealed its complex relations to many behaviors involved in HIV prevention and treatment, and exposed its central role in managing the HIV epidemic. The causes and consequences of disclosure acts have recently been the subject of several theoretical models. Although it is acknowledged that individual disclosur...

This study explores whether information disclosure can cause cooperation in a social dilemma, even when people can disseminate false information. In the past, illegal dumping increased in Japan despite the strengthening of penalties and surveillance laws, due to practical limitations in monitoring and surveillance. To resolve this, the tracking sheet used to trace the trading and processing of ...

Legal and historical evidence suggest that real estate brokers played a substantial role in the white flight. This paper introduces real estate brokers in a tipping model of segregation. The model features voluntary disclosure of information by the broker in a game with private information and strategic complementarities. Real estate brokers can shift the equilibrium by disclosing information o...

Using a sample of 43 countries, we examine the association between societal trust and firms‟ voluntary and regulated financial reporting and disclosure quality. We explore two competing predictions. On one hand, societal trust and voluntary reporting quality are predicted to have a negative association if greater trust lowers stakeholders‟ demand for information. Similarly, a predicted negative...

In their path of searching for additional sources information better-informed decision-making process, market participants are presented with Voluntary disclosures. This paper aims at examining the determinants voluntary disclosures in GCC countries. A cross-sectional multiple regression analysis a sample size 74 listed firms from equity markets shows that leverage and economic sectors dominate...