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Do Guaranteed-Low-Price Policies Guarantee High Prices, And Can Antitrust Rise To The Challenge?, Aaron S. Edlin

Aaron Edlin

Price-matching policies can be highly anticompetitive. They allow firms to raise their prices above competition levels by discriminating in price between informed and uninformed customers. The resulting high prices can persist even when new firms enter the industry, a fact that gives price matching the potential to be much more socially costly than an ordinary monopoly or cartel. At the same time, widespread entry implies that the agreement among sellers that is typical of a Sherman Act price-fixing case may be absent. In this article, Professor Edlin argues that there is nonetheless an analogy between a seller offering (and agreeing) …

International Trade Between Consumer And Conservationist Countries, M. Scott Taylor, James A. Brander

M. Scott Taylor

We consider trade between a Consumer country with an open access renewable resource and a Conservationist country that regulates resource harvesting to maximize domestic steady-state utility. In what we call the mild overuse case, the consumer country exports the resource good and suffers steady-state losses from trade, as suggested by the conventional wisdom that weak resource management standards confer a comparative advantage on domestic firms in the resource sector but cause welfare losses. Strikingly, however, when the resource stock is most in jeopardy, the conservationist country exports the resource good in steady state and both countries gain from trade.

Élites Parlamentarias E Integración Subregional En América Latina, Flavia Freidenberg, Manuel Alcántara

Flavia Freidenberg

No abstract provided.

The Top Programs In America, Jack Styczynski

Jack Styczynski

Part 1 in a semi-decennial series analyzing the top programs in college basketball.

Where Homeless Families Come From: Toward A Prevention-Oriented Approach In Washington, Dc, Dennis P. Culhane, Chang-Moo Lee

Dennis P. Culhane

No abstract provided.

Women And Children, Militarism, And Human Rights: International Women's Working Conference, Gwyn Kirk, Martha Matsuoka, Margo Okazawa-Rey

Martha Matsuoka

No abstract provided.

Spiritual Diversity: A Challenge For Hospice Chaplains, Scott Hall

Scott E. Hall, Ph.D., LPCC-S

No abstract provided.

The Futility Of Campaign Finance Reform: A Historical Perspective, Christopher H. Hoebeke

Christopher H Hoebeke

No abstract provided.

Changes In Central Technical Services: Backlog Elimination, Karen S. Calhoun, Jim Leblanc

Karen S Calhoun

This report describes a cataloging backlog of about 97,000 items and outlines an innovative project to eliminate it without adding staff or slowing the processing of new receipts. Includes assessments of backlog content, growth rate, and underlying organizational issues that cause the backlog to be there and to grow.

Report On Stack Collocation Loss, Karen S. Calhoun

Karen S Calhoun

This internal report for Cornell University Library evaluates the probable impact of simply accepting call numbers in cataloging copy, rather than reviewing and adjusting them to assure stack order is maintained over time.

Sohbetodalarilife.Pdf, Sohbet Odalari

sohbet odalari

From Acting Locally To Thinking Globally: A Brief History Of Library Automation, Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

No abstract provided.

Auction Design For Standard Offer Service, Peter Cramton, Andrew Parece, Robert Wilson

Peter Cramton

During the transition to a competitive electricity market, when a consumer does not select an electricity provider, who provides service to the customer and at what price? An auction for this "standard offer service" is a market-based way to assign the service responsibility and to determine its price. We explore the design issues in establishing rules for such an auction.

El Regreso A La Ciudad Construida, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

La relación entre suelo urbano y ciudad es indisoluble; tan es así que durante mucho tiempo se las entendió como si fueran lo mismo. Por eso, originalmente, el desarrollo urbano fue concebido como si fuera el resultado de los cambios en los usos de suelo propuestos por la planificación urbana.

Si bien esta comprensión inicial perdura hasta ahora, no se puede negar la existencia de un avance en la comprensión de la temática urbana, que ha llevado a superar esta visión espacialista caracterizada por la sobre determinación de lo espacial a lo social. Pero también, por aquella síntesis que postula …

Lessons Of A Drought, Ujjayant N. Chakravorty

Ujjayant Chakravorty

Water will become the most prized and precious commodity in the coming years. Internecine conflicts over the resource are already the order of the day and a global water crisis seems not too far away. But the water-guzzling US state of California is showing a way out of the problem - by allowing farmers to sell their share of water, it is pushing them to become efficient water users.

Clutter And Serial Order Redefined And Retested, Xinshu Zhao

Professor Xinshu ZHAO

Telephone-Based Guided Self-Help For Binge Eating Disorder: A Feasibility Study, Anita M. Wells, Vicki Garvin, Ruth H. Striegel-Moore

Ruth Striegel Weissman

Neglected Effects On The Uses Side: Even A Uniform Tax Would Change Relative Goods Prices, Don Fullerton, Diane Lim Rogers

Don Fullerton

No abstract provided.

Future Of Legal Publishing, Troy Johnson

Troy Johnson

An article looking at the future of publishing for the West Publishing.

Periodical Price Survey 1997: Unsettled Times, Unsettled Prices; The State Of The Periodicals Marketplace Mid-Revolution, Lee C. Van Orsdel, Kathleen Born

Lee C. Van Orsdel

No abstract provided.

Periodical Price Survey 1997: Unsettled Times, Unsettled Prices; The State Of The Periodicals Marketplace Mid-Revolution, Lee C. Van Orsdel, Kathleen Born

Lee C. Van Orsdel

No abstract provided.

Violence Against Women In Belgrade, Serbia: Sos Hotline, 1990-1993, Donna M. Hughes Dr., Zorica Mrsevic Dr.

Donna M. Hughes

The SOS Hotline for Women and Children Victims of Violence opened in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1990. For each call reporting an incident of violence, a data form was completed with the details of the call. Almost all callers were victims of violence from family member or intimate partners. The majority reported incidents of physical and verbal/emotional violence; a minority reported sexual and economic violence. The frequency and duration of violence were very high. Callers were often forced to live with perpetrators because of lack of available housing, which worsened due to privatization, economic sanction against Serbia, and the influx of …

Regionalización Y Descentralización Post-Bucaram, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Para que la descentralización ocurra, se requiere, como condición básica, la existencia de la unidad como un todo. Dicho de otra manera, sin una propuesta real de descentralización, este proceso puede potenciar todos los vicios que arrastra y negar las virtudes que tiene. De allí que en la actualidad la descentralización sea la expresi6n vaga de un malestar y de un descontento local-nacional no siempre bien definido, que no llega a representar un movimiento social con un programa.

Review Of "Intellectuals, Socialism, And Dissent: The East German Opposition And Its Legacy" By John C.Torpey, Marilyn Rueschemeyer

Marilyn Rueschemeyer

No abstract provided.

Women's Perceptions Of A "Chilly Climate" And Their Cognitive Outcomes During The First Year Of College, Ernest T. Pascarella, Elizabeth J. Whitt, Marcia I. Edison, Amaury Nora, Linda Serra Hagedorn, Patricia M. Yeager, Patrick T. Terenzini

Linda Serra Hagedorn

In this study of 2- and 4-year colleges, the extent to which women students' perceptions of a "chilly campus climate" were related to first year cognitive outcomes was investigated at 23 institutions. After a variety of potentially confounding influences were controlled for, several negative relationships were found between perceived chilly climates and women's cognitive growth. The negative relationships were more pronounced for women attending 2-year colleges than for their counterparts at 4-year institutions .

Environmental Levies And Distortionary Taxation: Comment, Don Fullerton

Don Fullerton

No abstract provided.

Law Review Story, Lisa Pruitt

Lisa R Pruitt

This essay is the story of the author’s election as editor-in-chief of the Arkansas Law Review and of her tenure in that role. The story implicates a range of legal issues including hate speech, sexual harassment, sex discrimination, defamation, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. It is also the tale of the author’s feminist epiphany and of the law school’s failure to respond to the harassment. It was published in the 50th anniversary issue of the Arkansas Law Review.

Uniformly Adaptive Estimation For Models With Arma Errors, Douglas Steigerwald

Douglas G. Steigerwald

A semiparametric estimator based on an unknown density is uniformly adaptive if the expected loss of the estimator converges to the asymptotic expected loss of the maximum likelihood estimator based on the true density (MLE), and if convergence does not depend on either the parameter values or the form of the unknown density. Without uniform adaptivity, the asymptotic expected loss of the MLE need not approximate the expected loss of a semiparamteric estimator for any finite sample. I show that a two-step semiparametric estimator is uniformly adaptive for the parameters of nonlinear regression models with autoregressive moving average errors.

Governmental Corruption In Africa: Sierra Leone As A Case Study, Gary Potter, Bankole Thompson

Gary W. Potter

This paper examines the definition and context of official corruption in the emerging African nation of Sierra Leone. Historical, legal and sociological studies of the development of Sierra Leone and corruption within that nation are reviewed, as well as the content of official judicial inquiries into administrative corruption. These investigations and studies are supplemented with data from the primary author’s experiences as a prosecutor and judge in Sierra Leone. Predisposing factors which facilitate corruption are identified and a variety of policies aimed at reform are discussed

Great Expectations: Competency-Based Training For Student Media Center Assistants, Penny Beile

Penny Beile