This paper conducts a crosscountry empirical study of the impact of institutions and agency conflicts on ownership reforms and their implications for changes in performance and efficiency. We examine two main questions. First, we evaluate the effects of certain property rights and institutional quality measures on performance and efficiency. We find that property rights and contracting rights p...

Although the Federal Health Privacy Rule has evened out some of the inconsistencies between states' health privacy laws, gaps in protection still remain. Furthermore, the Federal Rule contains some lax standards for the disclosure of health information. State laws can play a vital role in filling these gaps and strengthening the protections afforded health information. By enacting legislation t...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most significant information and communications technologies being applied to surveillance. AI’s proponents argue that its promise great, successes have been achieved, whereas detractors draw attention many threats embodied in it, some which are much more problematic than those arising from earlier data analytical tools. This article considers full gam...

Attribute-based encryption (ABE) is a promising cryptographic primitive that allows one-to-many encryption. In such a system, users' private keys are linked to their access rights. We note that if a user can generate a new private key for a portion of his/her access right, this could potentially lead to some undesirable situations, which violate the access control policy. Interestingly, to date...

Welch & Peers (1963) used a root-information prior to obtain posterior probabilities for a scalar parameter exponential model and showed that these Bayes probabilities had the confidence property to second order asymptotically. An important undercurrent of this indicates that the constant information reparameterization provides location model structure, for which the confidence property ...