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As the ongoing Asian crises underscore, policymaking and policies are becoming less the exclusive purview of governments and more the outcome of a complex process in which diverse groups participate actively, with varying degrees of influence.
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In contrast to the multilateral, consensus-driven approach to world trade pursued by U.S. policymakers from approximately 1946 to 1985, U.S. trade policy today has a strong unilateral component. Nevertheless, the United States has by no means abandon...
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This article discusses the impact of the revolution in electronic commerce ("e-commerce") at three social levels: consumers, firms, and nations. At the consumer level, the technology tends to have a magnifying effect: realizing the retail potential f...
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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.
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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.
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Many arts firms are experiencing increasing costs relative to their revenues. This dissertation argues that demand management, if properly defined and pursued, represents at least a partial solution to this problem.
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This volume offers the first comprehensive statement by a contingent of leading RAND thinkers on the contours of a redefined Atlantic partnership. In the world emerging since the end of the Cold War, the United States and Europe have strikingly commo...
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Few studies have examined the provision of tertiary care services by managed care organizations (MCOs).
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Commercially insured and Medicare patients not in health maintenance organizations (HMOs) tend to use different hospitals than HMO patients use.
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The mismeasurement of illegal drug markets : the implications of its irrelevance
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Presents an in-progress report for research on the marketplace dynamics, including government-industry relations, the strategies of U.S. firms and other entities entering this arena, and international perspectives on and activities in the market.
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The authors make projections about how the role of the state in the market will be reshaped on both sides of the Atlantic in order to help policymakers anticipate and avoid points of friction.
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Uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey — Youth to examine the dynamics of the labor market experience of young people entering the labor market.
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If, as some argue, conflict between the Islamic world and the West is on the horizon, then the frontline of such disputes is in the Mediterranean area, where North Africa and southern Europe meet. The fear of increased migration from North Africa int...
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In these seminar remarks, the speaker discusses market failure and non-market failure, the relationship between these failures and society, the mix between markets and governments in economic and social systems, and Spain's macroeconomic conditions.
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Family ties and labor markets in the United States and Brazil
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This study examines the pricing strategies of Japanese and U.S. firms in response to the sharp movements in the yen/dollar exchange rate in the 1980s.
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Trends and future directions in youth labor markets : implications for Army recruiting
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Estimates of the total dollar value of the markets for illicit drugs are usually produced by multiplying estimated consumption by price. This paper argues that the relevant price for such calculations is not simply the price of one standard unit.
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The U.S. telecommunications trade deficit with Japan has risen during the last decade, and some have alleged that Japan has engaged in "one-sided" trade and "unfair" competition.
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