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Networks, information & disclosureThe Compliance Game Never Ends
STATUS · Manuscript in progressSSRN · Not yet posted
MECHANISM
Identify the incentive structure and the condition that would falsify the claim.
RULE CHANGE
Read the intervention only after the paper shows how the current payoff space fails to support system welfare.
READER USE
Use the summary to see where private gain creates system exposure, then check the study record.
Contribution — what this adds to the conversation
Provides formal proofs, empirical case studies, and a concrete policy proposal (Decision Accounting) that bridges theory and practice.
WHAT'S NEW · Formalizes the system-welfare failure and Disclosure Futility Theorem, extending the MST to regulatory compliance with novel Decision Accounting solution.
The paper identifies a structural failure in regulatory compliance, termed the Hollow Win, where both regulators and firms benefit while the system degrades. Using the Missing System Theory and SAPM framework, it proves that disclosure-based interventions cannot fix this failure. The solution is mandatory Decision Accounting with Field 17 (SYSTEM WELFARE), which forces firms to record welfare impacts before decisions, eliminating plausible deniability and transforming the game.