We show that information exchange via disclosure is possible in equilibrium even when it certain whenever one party learns the truth, other loses. The incentive to disclose results either from an expectation of being reciprocated—the quid pro quo motive—or possibility learning rival's failure act response a disclosure—the screening motive. Alternating and gradual disclosures are generally indis...

Conclusion. Our findings suggest that the model can reasonably identify patients whose infections would be likely to be covered by cefazolin. Further, the majority of patients would have been covered by a narrower spectrum antibiotics than what they received. Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the NIH under Award N...

This discussion aims to provide the occasional medical expert witness with background knowledge of the adversarial court system and the role of the medical expert witness within it. The parallel evolution of the adversarial and inquisitorial legal systems has been more out of tradition rather than any systematic review of the effectiveness of one system or the other. Both legal systems have the...

This paper considers some preliminary evidence about environmental disclosures of Australian gold/copper mining companies with interests in PNG, Indonesia, or both. First, comment is made about the possible importance of the content of annual reports to stakeholders. Second, a framework of expectations about annual report disclosures of multinationals is developed. Third, the technique of conte...

We use MD&A disclosures to predict current-year firm-level accruals using support-vector regressions. We call these predictions MD&A accruals. Our aim is to measure the explanatory power of MD&A disclosures for liquidity and critical accounting choices. We find that MD&A accruals explain a statistically and economically significant portion of firm-level accruals and identify more persistent acc...

This article presents two studies examining the effects of disclosing online native advertising (i.e., sponsored content in blogs) on people’s brand attitude and purchase intentions. To investigate the mechanisms underlying these effects, we integrated resistance theories with the persuasion knowledge model. We theorize that disclosures activate people’s persuasion knowledge, which in turn evok...

The Data Track is a transparency-enhancing tool that aims to educate users by providing them with an overview of all their data disclosures. In this paper, we describe a cryptographic scheme for storing all data disclosures tracked by the Data Track centrally in the cloud in a privacy-friendly way. Our scheme allows users to store their data anonymously, while keeping the cloud provider account...

Disclosures. All authors: No reported disclosures. 305. Acute Q Fever in Israel: Clinical and Demographic Data 2006–2016 Sharon Reisfeld, MD; Shayma Hasadia Mhamed, MD; Michal Stein, MD and Michal Chowers, md; Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel, Infectious Diseases Unit, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel, Internal Medicine B, Hillel Yaffe Medical Cente...