Author’s note: Converting my AEPL presentation to an article required a few changes in structure. In addition, I incorporated material from the handouts and answers to questions that audience members raised. During the presentation, participants examined excerpts from graphic narratives, which are not included here. However, the activities are described for those who would like to find the imag...

Add a stage of signal acquisition to a canonical model of portfolio choice. Under fully revealing asset price, investors’ information demand reflects their choice of transparency. In reducing uncertainty, financial transparency raises expected asset price and thus benefits holders of the risky asset. At a natural transparency limit, however, investors pay to inhibit further disclosure in order ...

A sequence of nonnegative integers is k-graphic if it is the degree sequence of a kuniform hypergraph. The only known characterization of k-graphic sequences is due to Dewdney in 1975. As this characterization does not yield an efficient algorithm, it is a fundamental open question to determine a more practical characterization. While several necessary conditions appear in the literature, there...

In contrast to the existing approaches for document analysis and understanding this paper represents a system that considers a logical role for graphic content in predominantly textual, born digital PDF documents. This work was inspired by the idea of using structural graphic objects in order to clarify the logical layout even of complex mostly graphic documents. Based on visual cognition, geom...

This paper describes a novel agglutinative language modeling strategy for Uyghur with graphic language model as structure. In graphic modeling language model, sentences are organized by morphemes as a directed graph, which is different from the linear structure in n-gram language models. The graphic language model is verified in two typical natural language processing application scenarios, mor...

Public and private organizations in various areas are setting up digital Information Infrastructures (IIs) for interconnecting government, businesses and citizens. IIs can create value by sharing and integrating data of multiple actors. This can be the basis for value added services and especially collaborations of public and private partners can make IIs thrive. Easier access to integrated ser...

This article reports a pioneering case study of a crowdsourced law-reform process in Finland. In the crowdsourcing experiment, the public was invited to contribute to the law-reform process by sharing their knowledge and ideas for a better policy. This article introduces a normative design framework of five principles for crowdsourced policymaking: inclusiveness, accountability, transparency, m...

Firms make investments in technology to increase productivity. But in emerging markets, where a culture of informality is widespread, information technology (IT) investments leading to greater transparency can impose a cost through higher taxes and need for regulatory compliance. This tendency of firms to avoid productivity-enhancing technologies and remain small to avoid transparency has been ...

A number of studies have emphasized that governance has many components, including accountability, autonomy, role clarity, policy coherence (especially as related to objectives), stakeholder participation/ engagement, professionalism (capacity), and transparency. This study identifies seven elements affecting infrastructure performance: institutions, interests (stakeholders), information, incen...

This thesis examines the factors that influence perceptions of judicial corruption. A statistical analysis using data from such sources as Transparency International, the World Bank, and Freedom House demonstrates that aspects of accountability (the ability to remove judges) and transparency (freedom of the press) are only weakly related to perceptions of judicial corruption. A systematic count...