Competition Policy for an Economically Integrated North America

Competition Policy in Latin America

This paper reports on recent developments in Latin American competition (antitrust) policy from the perspective of the role competition policy in supporting market reform. Competition policy is an instance of the use of law to influence economic behavior. More than eighty nations have enacted antitrust laws in the last twenty years, mostly based on U.S. and E.U. models. A review of the antitrus...

An Integrated Production-Inventory Model with Backorder and Lot for Lot Policy

    inventory model,   backorder   buyer ,   vendor,   lot for lot policy In this paper, an inventory model for two-stage supply chain is investigated. A supply chain with single vendor and single buyer is considered. We assume that shortage as a backorder is allowed for the buyer and the vendor makes the production set up every time the buyer places an order and supplies on a lot for lot basis...

The Evolution of Rural Policy and Agricultural Policy in North America:1

The broad objective of the paper is to review the development of federal policy affecting rural areas in Canada and the United States, and to assess its effects on rural residents. In doing this the focus goes beyond policies that are explicitly rural in nature. Today broader social policies are the major federal influence on rural areas in both nations. In part this reflects the simple fact th...

Admixture in North America

The history of North America has been marked by the encounter of populations from different continents. The discovery of the New World began a period defined by human migrations at a much larger scale than in previous history. This movement of people, voluntary or forced, changed profoundly the human landscape. As populations came into contact, admixture followed in varying degrees depending on...

Medicine in North America