This paper reports evidence that Regulation Fair Disclosure has had its desired effect of reducing selective disclosure of information about future earnings to individual analysts without reducing the total amount of information disclosed. In particular, it finds that multi-forecast days, which typically follow public announcements or events, now account for over 70 percent of the new informati...

introduction: one of the most fundamental duties of him professionals is the duty to maintain health information about their patients. this duty is imposed explicitly by state and federal statuted and regulations as well as by accreditation standards. also one of the most important responsibilities him professionals have is keeping confidential health information out of the hands of unauthorize...

Abstract Effective risk communication is essential for disaster management. Apart from empowering communities to make informed choices, information disclosure can also drastically enhance their preparedness, especially concerning conjoint scenarios of technological and natural hazards (Natech). A fundamental precondition the actual demand such information. This study ventures assess whether res...

Privacy is one of the major concerns when publishing or sharing social network data for social science research and business analysis. This paper is motivated by the recognition of the need for a finer grain and personalized privacy in data publication of social netwoks.Recently , researchers have proposed a privacy protection scheme that not only prevents the disclosure of identity of users bu...

The first decade of the 21 century has witnessed the rise of Web 2.0 technologies that allow users to create and share content online with friends – and strangers alike. These technologies have generated an ‘enthusiasm for sharing’ as well as privacy concerns that researchers, organizations and policy makers often measure and debate. After introducing the trade-offs of information sharing (Chap...

C. M. Johnson T. W. A. Grandison Governments worldwide are enacting data protection laws that restrict the disclosure and processing of personal information. These laws impose administrative and financial burdens on companies that manage personal information and may hinder the legitimate and valuable sharing and analysis of this information. In this paper we describe an integrated set of techno...

We examine the portfolio turnover of mutual funds from 29 countries across the world and for the period 1999 to 2004. Our results indicate that turnover in foreign securities is higher in the countries that are less developed, have less investor protection, have lower information disclosure standard, and are less familiar to the fund managers. The negative relationship between turnover in forei...

Understanding privacy is important to individuals and organizations. This research in progress develops a theoretical model that incorporates both actual disclosure behavior and the potential for irrational behavior induced by overriding situational factors presented at the time of the privacy disclosure decision. Actual disclosure behavior is seldom measured in privacy research, and most prior...

When a decision-maker’s attention is limited, her decisions depend on what she focuses on. This gives interested parties an incentive to manipulate not only the substance of communication but also the decision-maker’s attention allocation. This paper models such attention manipulation. In its presence, competitive information supply can reduce the decision-maker’s knowledge by causing informati...