with their announcement and no evidence of excessive leakage of information. Cross-sectional regressions show that the …

significant negative abnormal return associated with their announcement and no evidence of excessive leakage of information …

, especially in contract theory. After thoroughly summarizing the potential information asymmetries and negative incentives between …

This dissertation includes two essays on the economic aspects of information security. The first essay presents a … principal-agent model for assessing the value of information security audits. The issue of information security investments is … confounded by control problems arising from asymmetric information and conflicting managerial interests within the firm. By …

and activities can be explained by the reduction of information asymmetries and agency costs. The results confirm that … three aspects of information asymmetry investigated, research intensity, the use of R&D financing arrangements and the …

these practices. These resultsdemonstrate that a higher level of transparency, and consequently lower information asymmetry …

Mechanisms used to allocate licenses to newcomers differ in various respects, and one of them being the information … revealed by the regulator. The author analyzes the impact of information revelation on the market structure, the market outcome …