In order to reduce identity theft and consumer loss caused by data breaches, many U.S. states have enacted laws requiring firms to notify individuals when their personal information has been stolen or lost. The effect of these disclosure laws has yet to be rigorously tested, and some claim that they only serve to burden firms and consumers with unnecessary costs. Leveraging the economic analysi...

Do minority employees join network groups due to social identity, dissatisfaction with conditions at work, or career costs and benefits? Results show that joining is driven by social identity as well as expected costs (backlash) and benefits (career enhancement) but not by dissatisfaction, making it unlikely that they will become oppositional. Participation is also driven by cost-benefit calcul...

Social navigation is the process of making navigational decisions in real or virtual environments based on social and communicative interaction with others. A computational model for social navigation is presented as an extension to an existing framework for general navigation, reducing decision-making to the minimization of cognitive costs. Consideration for social navigation gives rise to a c...

this research aims to study the relationship between the components of quality costs and quality in company. the relationship between the components of quality costs and quality in company has been studied separately for materials, manpower, machinery, and whole of company. in this study, traditional method was used to collect quality costs and paf model was used to determine the components of ...

The paper investigates the dynamic relationship between social trust and economic governance and provides a possible explanation for their long-term trends and crosssectional variation. To mitigate the inherent moral hazard problem in a principal— agent situation, both intrinsic trustworthiness and extrinsic incentives are useful. The distribution of intrinsic trustworthiness among agents chara...

The cost-effectiveness of various end-stage renal disease (ESRD) treatments was compared using two different cost measures. The first measure, gross social costs, excluded output gains due to treatment, whereas the second measure, net social costs, included output gains from both market and nonmarket activities. The cost-effectiveness criterion was the cost-per-life year gained or the implicit ...

OBJECTIVE The authors determined the costs associated with generalized social anxiety disorder in a managed care setting. METHOD A three-phase mail and telephone survey was conducted from July to October 1998 in two outpatient clinics of a large health maintenance organization (HMO). The survey assessed direct costs, indirect costs, health-related quality of life, and clinical severity associ...