Piling on the pressure

Piling On: The Fiscal Effects of Jurisdictional Overlap

This paper discusses the common-pool problems that arise when multiple territorially overlapping governments share the authority to provide services and levy taxes in a common geographic area. Contrary to a traditional Tiebout model in which increasing the number of local governments increases competition and improves efficiency, when jurisdictions overlap, increasing the number of governments ...

Piling of multiscale random models

This paper considers random balls in a D-dimensional Euclidean space whose centers are prescribed by a homogeneous Poisson point process and whose radii are forced to be in a finite interval with a power-law distribution. Random fields are constructed by counting the number of covering balls at each point. We are mainly interested in the simulation of these fields and in the empirical estimatio...

The audacity of interpretation: Protecting patients or piling on?

In November 2013, the United States Food and Drug Administration set off a media firestorm (or what passes for one in our world) when it sent a warning letter to the highest-profile direct-to-consumer genetic testing company, Silicon Valley-based 23andMe (Gutierrez, 2013). The company, the agency alleged, had committed a litany of transgressions during its six years in business, most notably vi...

survey on the rule of the due & hindering relying on the sheikh ansaris ideas

قاعده مقتضی و مانع در متون فقهی کم و بیش مستند احکام قرار گرفته و مورد مناقشه فقهاء و اصولیین می باشد و مشهور معتقند مقتضی و مانع، قاعده نیست بلکه یکی از مسائل ذیل استصحاب است لذا نگارنده بر آن شد تا پیرامون این قاعده پژوهش جامعی انجام دهد. به عقیده ما مقتضی دارای حیثیت مستقلی است و هر گاه می گوییم مقتضی احراز شد یعنی با ماهیت مستقل خودش محرز گشته و قطعا اقتضاء خود را خواهد داشت مانند نکاح که ...

Piling Up, or Floating Away