BACKGROUND Communicating clinical trial results to research participants is seldom accomplished in a timely or an effective manner. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of a plan to communicate results in an industry-sponsored randomized controlled trial for Huntington disease. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Postal survey to research participants at 28 of 41 research sites (including ...

This paper asks whether publicizing firms’ regulatory performance influences their subsequent compliance behavior in the domain of workplace safety. It utilizes a policy change by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) whereby it started issuing a press release detailing safety and health violations found during an inspection if that inspection resulted in financial penalties ...

A notable development of recent times has been the exponential increase of video content available on newspaper websites. The technological convergence between press and broadcasting throws into sharp relief the historically disparate regulation of the two sectors. As long as no political consensus on regulatory convergence can be reached, the question of how to distinguish between text-based a...

For many years, financial markets have been part of people’s everyday life. Information on the major securities can be found easily in the daily press or on internet. The different actors of the economy look closely at some fundamental parameters, such as interest rates, currency rates, stock prices..., which may affect the management of their firms, especially after the deregulation process in...

This paper studies the relationship of parental resources to the marital transitions of children. It extends past research by explicitly distinguishing various dimensions of parental resources and by taking parental preferences directly into account. We test models in which parental resources have additive effects on the timing of marriage and models in which parental resources interact with pa...

Wendy Dobson (visiting fellow in 1990-91) is professor and director of the Institute for International Business at the University of Toronto. Between 1981 and 1987 she was president of the C.D. Howe Institute. From 1987 to 1989, Dr. Dobson served as Associate Deputy Minister of Finance in the Canadian government. She is coauthor of World Capital Markets: Challenge to the G-10 (2001) with Gary C...

Habit utility has been the focus of a large and growing body of literature in financial economics. This study investigates ways of accurately and efficiently solving the Campbell and Cochrane [1999. Journal of Political Economy 107, 205–251] external habit model. Solutions for this model based on a grid of values for the state variable are shown to converge as the grid becomes increasingly fine...

We study rational equilibrium asset-pricing bubbles in an economic environment in which agents are allowed to trade continuously, including as special cases some models from financial economics. For positive net supply assets, we present new necessary and sufficient conditions for the absence of bubbles in complete and incomplete markets equilibria with several types of borrowing constraints. F...

This article examines the relationship between judgments of risk and judgments of expected return of financial assets. It suggests that for unfamiliar assets, both risk and return judgments are derived from global preference toward the asset, whereas for familiar assets, these judgments tend to be derived from the ecological values of the asset’s risk and expected return—their values in the fin...