D igitization is disrupting a number of copyright-protected media industries, including books, music, radio, television, and movies. Once information is transformed into digital form, it can be copied and distributed at near-zero marginal costs. This change has facilitated piracy in some industries, which in turn has made it difficult for commercial sellers to continue generating the same level...

Acknowledgement: We would like to thank participants to seminars at the Bank of Finland and the Warwick Financial Option Research Centre for their comments and suggestions, particularly those from Daniel Cohen and Stewart Hodges. The paper was completed when Marcus Miller was Visiting Scholar at the IMF Research Department and he is grateful for their hospitality. The views expressed are those ...

In response to the need for a more structured approach toward the enhancement of and preparation for case consultation, the Portland Service Area (PSA) of the Providence Health System Oregon Region implemented a "special team" system. These teams--an extension of the ethics committees already in place--underwent training in areas such as an overview of ethics, patient decision making, professio...