The financial literature and practices have shown the importance of corporate governance for decades, not only for firm’s management but also for investor protection. Information disclosure plays a key role in all of the governance mechanisms. With good information disclosure, the asymmetric information and the agency cost between the insider and the outsider of firms can be reduced effectively...

Risk information for Alzheimer disease (AD) may be communicated through susceptibility gene disclosure, even though this is not currently in clinical use. The REVEAL Study is the first randomized clinical trial of risk assessment for AD with apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype and numerical risk estimate disclosure. We examined whether APOE genotype and numerical risk disclosure to asymptomatic in...

self-disclosure, as communication of information about one's affects, behaviors, and cognitions, has been emphasized as one of the central issues of the psychotherapeutic process. verbal and nonverbal aspects of disclosure are important factors of psychotherapeutic communication, both for therapist and patient. this paper presents an account of the development and reliability of an observationa...

This study explores factors that may explain information disclosure behavior on Facebook and provides understanding of each factor’s contribution in explaining such behavior. Factors tested in this study are drawn from theories (e.g., social contract theory and uses and gratification theory) and constructs (e.g., trust/self-disclosure relationships, time spent on Facebook, number of Facebook fr...

application of ipr and the right of investigation about the claim of its infringement, need issuing some protective orders. mostly, this is for avoiding destruction of evidences which can be effective in proving the right of the plaintiff. the purpose of this study is to find out how can protect the third party’s right of privacy in the process of ipr enforcement. in common law, there are two i...

We compare the disclosure risk criterion of ε-differential privacy with a criterion based on probabilities that intruders uncover actual values given the released data. To do so, we generate fully synthetic data that satisfy ε-differential privacy at different levels of ε, make assumptions about the information available to intruders, and compute posterior probabilities of uncovering true value...

We investigate the influence of loan and syndicate characteristics and information disclosure and legal environment factors on the arrangement timetable of bank loan syndications (measured as the time elapsed from the launching until the completion of the deal) from 68 countries over the 1992-2006 period. Employing accelerated failure time models from survival analysis methodology, we find that...

There are many distinctions between statistical research databases and those arising in commercial or administrative settings, and thus different issues regarding confidentiality and privacy protection on the one hand and and data access and the use of databases on the other. Data integration across multiple databases raises issues in both domains, especially with regard to protection against i...

Inference control in databases, also known as Statistical Disclosure Control (SDC), is about protecting data so they can be published without revealing confidential information that can be linked to specific individuals among those to which the data correspond. This is an important application in several areas, such as official statistics, health statistics, e-commerce (sharing of consumer data...