The reported study examined the implications of receiving superficial self-disclosures from a friend. A total of 199 adults reported on communication episodes initiated by a friend during the previous 7 days via five communication technologies and completed measures of liking, relationship satisfaction, and willingness to provide social support to their friend. The results revealed significant ...

This paper investigates how the characteristics of information security incidents and disclosures in financial reports affect the valuation of a firm. Building on theories of disclosures in the accounting literature, we investigate investor reaction to disclosures through both quantitative and qualitative analyses. A cross-sectional analysis is first performed to examine the effect of the numbe...

Researchers have long recognized the importance of understanding corporate risk disclosures and conducted empirical studies to investigate various research questions. This dissertation particularly focuses on investigating the impact of these textual risk disclosures on post-disclosure risk perceptions of investors. The objective of this dissertation is two-fold. Firstly, we aim to design an au...

This paper studies how information disclosure a ects investment e ciency and investor welfare in a dynamic setting in which a rm makes sequential investments to adjust its capital stock over time. We show that the e ects of accounting disclosures on investment e ciency and investor welfare crucially depend on whether such disclosures convey information about the rm's future capital stock or abo...

Needs Statement Volume expansion is recognized as critically important in optimizing patient status during surgery or in intensive care settings, and the ability to predict fluid responsiveness represents a major clinical challenge. Goal-directed perioperative fluid management using dynamic indicators of fluid responsiveness such as stroke volume has been shown to decrease postoperative morbidi...

This research examined whether a government-initiated pilot project of mandatory polygraph testing would increase the disclosures made by community-supervised sexual offenders in the United Kingdom. The Offender Managers of 332 pilot polygraph sexual offenders and 303 sexual offenders who were receiving usual community supervision were telephoned quarterly, over a 21-month period, to collect in...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the rate and type of inconsistencies between disclosures self-reported by physicians at a major academic meeting in the United States and industry-reported disclosures in the Open Payments database for a concordant time period. METHODS Disclosures for every first and last author from the United States with a medical degree of a podium or p...