J.D., Harvard Law School, 1969. A version of Part II of this article appeared in Issues in Science and Technology, Fall 2003. ** Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University. B.A., B.S, Pennsylvania State University, 1969; M.A., Ohio State University, 1972; Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1975; M.S.L., Yale Law School, 1989. The authors would like to thank Ron Allen and ...

P auctions are sometimes plagued with a chosen supplier’s failing to accomplish a project successfully. The risk of project failure is considerable, especially when the buyer has inadequate information about suppliers ex ante and the project can only be evaluated at the end. To manage such uncertainty, a model of competitive procurement and contracting for a project is presented in this paper. ...

BACKGROUND The new National Cancer Institute (NCI) Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) went live August 1, 2014; 34 sites were selected for the program, including 7 new sites that previously did not have a research grant from the NCI. This report describes the first year of a new program site. METHODS Accrual, investigator and site participation, and number of open studies by the prog...

Most research in sponsored search auctions assume that users act in a stochastic manner, ignoring potential strategic deliberations. We propose a simple model of user costs and benefits. We then show how to formulate the corresponding sponsored search environment as a Markov decision process. For certain sponsored-search mechanisms, we are able to derive the optimal (i.e., utility-maximizing) u...

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BACKGROUND A publication bias exists towards positive results in studies funded by pharmaceutical companies. OBJECTIVES To determine whether drug studies in the pulmonary/allergy literature also demonstrate a publication bias towards more favorable results when a pharmaceutical company funds the study. METHODS We reviewed all original articles published in seven pulmonary and allergy journa...

∗ This research is sponsored in part by AFOSR (F49620-98-1-0217).

∗ This research is sponsored in part by AFOSR (F49620-98-1-0217).

In this paper, we report results of an investigation into the effect of sponsored links on ecommerce information seeking on the Web. In this research, 56 participants each engaged in 6 ecommerce Web searching tasks using 60 organic and 30 sponsored Web links for each task. We extracted these tasks from the transaction log of an actual Web search engine, so these queries represent actual ecommer...