Unlike the 2004 protocol, the new guidelines also recommend that rape victims be offered emergency contraception or — in cases where health professionals have moral objections — information on how to immediately obtain the medication.
Two situations point out the adverse effects of asymmetric information: moral hazard, which is associated with the decisions made by more-informed individuals and adverse selection, which is associated with self-selection of individuals with hidden characteristics.
Market failures commonly include natural monopolies, externalities, public goods, asymmetric information, moral hazard, or transaction costs.
Neither jingoistic nor pacifist, the book is about the moral authority of information, as it applies to the present and future nature of war.
Transparency, independence, the free flow of information, moral clarity, objective truth — these notions took hold and flourished in the last century at papers like The Times.
I abhor the moral decline in information technology driven by these new movements.
In the section above, the focus was on the moral impacts of information technologies on the individual user.
Therefore, understanding the role of moral values in information technology is indispensable to the design and use of these technologies (Johnson 1985; Moor 1985; Nissenbaum 1998; Spinello 2001).
In contrast, norm-based messages that combine technical information, moral suasion and social comparisons exhibit strong heterogeneity: households that are wealthier, owner-occupied and use more water are more responsive.
Schulz's own prescription for preventing a recurrence of the 2008 meltdown would focus on improving America's balkanized financial regulatory system and on reducing moral hazard and information asymmetry.
