Improving Internet Security through Mandatory Information Disclosure

摘要: Although disclosure has long been considered as a solution to internalize externalities, mandatory security information is still in debate. We propose mechanism based on existing data. The disclosed straightforward rankings of organizations for users understand, interpret, and make comparisons. As result, the can influence through reputational effects. created public website disclose regularly conducted quasi-experiment outgoing spam test effectiveness our four matched country groups. For each treated country, we released ranking list top 10 most spamming every month, while control countries, no was disclosed. find that treatment subject reduced significantly more than comparison organizations.