When a Price is Enough: Implementation in Optimal Tax Design

When enough is enough.

The European Commission should be regulating nanosilver, not asking for yet another report on its impact on health and the environment.

When Is Enough, Enough?

As academic researchers we have to walk a delicate line when it comes to publishing papers on similar topics, possibly using the same data sets. On one hand, we want to get as many articles published as possible, preferably in high quality journals. We want to leverage the data sets that we have spent considerable effort collecting. On the other hand, we need to be careful not to overuse these ...

Test: when is enough enough?

The focus of this panel is the trade-off between excessive testing and acceptable shipped quality levels. How much testing is enough? We all strive to ship our customers high quality product, or at least product that meets our customers’ quality expectations. Often improvements in shipped quality levels can be made by plugging obvious holes in a device’s test suite, sometimes simply by increasi...

When Enough Is Not Enough

People are often exposed to more information than they can actually remember. Despite this frequent form of information overload, little is known about how much information people choose to remember. Using a novel “stop” paradigm, the current research examined whether and how people choose to stop receiving new—possibly overwhelming—information with the intent to maximize memory performance. Pa...

Medical futility. When is enough, enough?