REPORT
This report considers how translational research and knowledge exchange can be enhanced throughout the food and agricultural value chain so that best use is made of public and private investment in research and knowledge generation.
REPORT
This report describes the phenomenon of convergence in communications and audiovisual content markets and determines its impact on regulations and market governance. It draws useful lessons from approaches applied in the U.S., U.K., and South Korea.
REPORT
In order to inform the European Commission's formal Impact Assessment for a revision to the Tobacco Products Directive, this study provides an overview of evidence for tobacco product regulation and an analysis of health and economic implications.
PROJECT
Since 2003, Ofcom has overseen the broader UK communications market as a converged communications regulator. At the request of the National Audit Office, RAND Europe is evaluating Ofcom's performance compared with that of other international regulators that are dealing with similar challenges, such as next generation access networks and access to emergency services using voice-over-internet protocol.
PROJECT
To understand better the challenges for businesses and Local Authorities participating in the Primary Authority Scheme—an effort to clarify regulations, reduce inconsistencies, and introduce effective dispute resolution mechanisms for businesses operating across multiple local authority boundaries—the Local Better Regulation Office has asked RAND Europe to review the costs and benefits of participation.
COMMENTARY
A select few Americans will ever see the president's daily brief -- a digest of the intelligence community's most closely guarded secrets. But trust me, Barack Obama is going to need much more useful information than he is getting now, writes Gregory F. Treverton.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
As developed countries have trended towards increased regulation of pharmaceuticals, manufacturer revenues have fallen - the size of the impact correlating with the degree of the change in regulation. This could mean a pharmaceutical revenue reduction by as much as 20.3 percent for a largely unregulated market like the U.S.
NEWS RELEASE
An improved understanding of the effects of regulation on small businesses will help lawmakers develop policy designed to advance entrepreneurship.
COMMENTARY
Published commentary by RAND staff: Steer a Smarter Course Than Specific Mileage Goals, in the Detroit Free Press.
COMMENTARY
Published commentary by RAND staff: A Desired Epidemic: Obesity and the Food Industry, in Washingtonpost.com.
COMMENTARY
Published commentary by RAND staff: Flooded with Food, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
REPORT
This study concludes that the EC’s proposed Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMS), which extends television broadcast regulation to Internet Protocol delivery, does not offer firms sufficient regulatory certainty to encourage investment in EU multimedia sectors. The study does not recommend changes to the AVMS, but it does indicate a need for greater regulatory certainty and for commitment to ‘light touch’…
COMMENTARY
Published commentary by RAND staff: Regulatory Reform on Both Sides of the Atlantic, in Washingtonpost.com.
NEWS RELEASE
May 8, 2006 News Release: RAND Study Shows Sarbanes-Oxley Act Had Short-Lived Effect on Small Businesses.
COMMENTARY
Published commentary by RAND staff.
REPORT
As the East Asian financial crisis continues to leave a path of destruction economically and politically in its wake, people all over the world seek to know what went wrong. Many blame the illiberal markets of the countries involved, and many blame t...
REPORT
RAND Europe was asked to help the Market Organization Sector of the Rijksverkeersinspectie (SMO/RVI) choose an appropriate, flexible, pro-active role for the year 2002 and beyond.
REPORT
RAND Europe was asked to help the Market Organization Sector of the Rijksverkeersinspectie (SMO/RVI) choose an appropriate, flexible, pro-active role for the year 2002 and beyond.
REPORT
Under the Toxic Substances Control Act, the Environmental Protection Agency must oversee a wide range of chemicals that may harm people or the environment. Because users of a chemical can substitute other chemicals, regulatory analysis must account f...
REPORT
This study argues that implicit risk tradeoffs among chemicals occur repeatedly as the response of economic markets to government regulation.
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