In the first chapter, I investigate a merger between price-setting newsvendors in an oligopolistic market. It is well-known that inventory pooling can greatly reduce inventory costs in a centralized distribution system because it helps reduce aggregate demand uncertainty. Although such statistical economies of scale are important benefits of a retail merger, the extant literature models cost sa...

before constitution revolution, advocacy in our country governed by islamic law and lawyers introduced as a free profession in means of that law. after that revolution the government promulgated some rules for its regulation as an official profession. by act of bar association independence, this profession declared independent. many lawyers after islamic revolution have been filtrated and by th...

1 Project Overview The complexity and diversity of government regulations make understanding the regulations a non-trivial task. One of the issues is the existence of multiple sources of regulations and interpretive guides; the latter are often independent of governing bodies. In this work, we describe a research prototype system that combines text mining and knowledge management techniques to ...

Few would argue that economic growth is the sole aim of society or, as conventionally measured, it is always an unmitigated blessing. Development can brings with it a degradation of the environment and the narrowing of ecological diversity. Certain industries, although not many, are natural monopolies or at best unstable oligopolies feared by the public as taking advantage of their privileged p...

n terms of housing issues, the primary public policy focus of economists has been the affordability of homes, mortgage availability, land-use regulation, and rent control. Studies of land-use regulation focus on the effects of regulation on the price of owner-occupied housing. Work on low-income housing has concerned itself more with issues of measurement and the debate over supply-side versus ...

The routine reaction of both industry trade groups and government regulators to deadly infrastructure failures such as railway disasters is to characterize them as anomalous, freak events occasioned either by human error or idiosyncratic equipment failure. Conversely, this Article uses the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework to show how the systematic federal deregulation of ...

How the Internet improves public participation in rulemaking. Cornell eRulemaking Initiative (CeRI) designed and operated Regulation Room, a pilot project that provides an online environment for people and groups to learn about, discuss, and react to selected proposed federal rules. The project is a unique collaboration between CeRI academic researchers and the government. The U.S. Department o...

Cardiovascular specialists encumbered with excessive intrusion into the patient-doctor relationship will likely agree with the conclusion of DiSesa et al1 that the coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) mortality rate was not different between the 26 states with certificate-ofneed (CON) programs and the 24 states without CON regulation. Data from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons’ (STS) National...