Prior work has established robust diversity in the extent to which different moral values are endorsed. Some people focus on values related to caring and fairness, whereas others assign additional moral weight to ingroup loyalty, respect for authority and established hierarchies, and purity concerns. Five studies explore associations between endorsement of distinct moral values and a suite of i...

Why do we trust what other people say, and form beliefs on the basis of their speech? One answer: they are taken to have epistemic authority. Intuitively this means that the other person (or institution, or group) is taken to be authoritative in what they say, at least with respect to a particular domain. Here, we want to claim that there are (at least) two varieties of epistemic authority, one...

I show that performance incentives vary by decision-making authority of division managers. For division managers with broader authority, i.e., those designated as corporate officers, both the sensitivity of pay to global performance measures and the relative importance of global to local measures are larger, relative to non-officers. There is no difference in sensitivity of pay to local measure...

This paper studies delegation as an alternative to communication. We show that a principal prefers to delegate control to a better informed agent rather than to communicate with this agent as long as the incentive conflict is not too large relative to the principal’s uncertainty about the environment. We further identify cases in which the principal optimally delegates control to an “intermedia...

The NRC is issuing this regulatory issue summary (RIS) to inform recipients of the status of the agency’s efforts to implement the requirements of Section 651(e) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct) on “Treatment of Accelerator-Produced and Other Radioactive Material as Byproduct Material.” This RIS updates the information contained in RIS 2007-22, “Status Update for Implementation of NRC R...

When we build electronic cash systems, the main focus of the design is usually on preventing customers’ malicious actions. However, since authorities such as banks and certificate authorities may have important secret data of customers, the insiders in the potentially untrusted authorities can become threats to electronic cash systems. Miyazaki and Sakurai [2] first systematically analyzed secu...

Despite the fact that the traditional public key infrastructure provides Level 3 trusted authority, but its two major problems of scalability and certificate management raised the need to an alternative security infrastructure. That motivated the appearance of new technologies to replace the traditional PKI, such as the Identity based encryption, the certificateless encryption, etc. But all tho...

The allocation of decision rights is an integral component of designing organizational architecture. Economists have long understood the importance of co-locating decision rights with the knowledge that is valuable to those decisions. Following this prescription, marketing scholars have developed strong theoretical arguments in favor of delegating pricing authority to the sales force. Empirical...