European regulatory agencies should employ full time statisticians

Should firms employ personalized pricing ?

The recent developments in information technology (IT) have enabled firms to employ personalized pricing. Should all firms employ personalized pricing even though the adaptation costs of such pricing strategies are not high? This paper theoretically demonstrates a situation in which all firms do not always employ personalized pricing even though the fixed costs to do so is zero. The model is ba...

Epidemiological studies for regulatory agencies.

In regulation of exposures to hazardous environmental agents, epidemiologic evidence is especially important in defining human risk estimates. The process of developing appropriate regulations is complex, however, and depends on many considerations beyond those established to a high degree of scientific certainty. Thus the needs of regulatory agencies are involved in the way epidemiologic data ...

The Evaluation of Regulatory Agencies

This paper presents a survey and overview of the evaluation of infrastructure regulation and regulatory agencies. It covers the development of ex ante and ex post evaluation based on costbenefit analysis and the application of these methods to regulation in the UK, the European Union and the USA. Much of the work in this area has been on infrastructure regulation in developing countries. The pa...

Politics and the Regulatory Agencies

North American regulatory agencies can and should make clinical trial data publicly available.