A water property right inventory of 60 countries

Unintentional drowning mortality, by age and body of water: an analysis of 60 countries

BACKGROUND To examine unintentional drowning mortality by age and body of water across 60 countries, to provide a starting point for further in-depth investigations within individual countries. METHODS The latest available three years of mortality data for each country were extracted from WHO Health Statistics and Information Services (updated at 13 November 2013). We calculated mortality rat...

Internet Regulation: A Property Right Perspective

Is Internet an ideal model for a self-regulated economy? It seems possible to decentrally organize and render enforceable a property rights system on which inter-individual negotiations could be based. Moreover, traditional State intervention is no longer operable since Internet users can bypass the usual regulatory frameworks. At the same time, the longterm sustainability of the competitive pr...

A property right to medical care.

Storm Water Inventory System

The intent of this report is to provide the reader with infor­ mation useful for establishing a sewer system inventory and record system in his or her city. The major topic of this report is the collection of data relevant to storm sewers. However, because of the natural progression of Muncie’s inventory, emphasis will be given to the collection of data for sanitary and combination sewers. The ...

A Dynamic Inventory Model with the Right of Refusal

We consider a dynamic inventory (production) model with general order (production) costs and excess demand that can be backordered or refused by the rm. A unit backordered incurs a backorder cost, a unit refused incurs a lost sales charge. Endogenizing the sales decision is necessary in the presence of general convex order costs so that the rm is not forced to backorder a unit whose subsequent ...