This paper examines the relationship between changes in telecommunications provider competition on international long distance routes and changes in prices on those routes. Overall, increased competition is associated with significantly lower prices to consumers of long distance services. However, the relationship between competition and price varies according to the type of long distance plan ...

Semantic information is more likely to be retrieved from recognized faces than from recognized voices. Earlier studies which investigated the recall of biographical information following person recognition used famous people’s voices and faces. The present study was designed with the aim of controlling more strictly the exposure frequency to both domains of stimuli (voices and faces). Participa...

The premise that competition will improve health care assumes that consumers will choose plans that best fit their needs and resources. However, many consumers are frustrated with currently available plan comparison information. We describe results from 22 focus groups in which Medicare beneficiaries, Medicaid enrollees, and privately insured consumers assessed the usefulness of indicators base...

Exploiting a unique data set containing transactions data from a panel of 769 Chinese stateowned enterprises between 1980 and 1989, this paper tests microeconomic implications of a pervasive form of corruption—official diversion of under-priced, in-plan goods to the market. Corruption has the predicted effects on resource allocation. Official under-pricing of in-plan goods, which lowers the mar...

competition is against monopoly and intellectual property creates monopoly for intellectual property owner. this article had been paid cooperation between apparently contradictory policies. exhaustion, parallel imports, compulsory license, intellectual property exploitation contract that coincide with competition are methods of cooperation between intellectual property and competition law. comp...

Focusing on the computation of conformant plans whose verification can be done efficiently, we have recently proposed a polynomial scheme for mapping conformant problems P with deterministic actions into classical problemsK(P ). The scheme is sound as the classical plans are all conformant, but is incomplete as the converse relation does not always hold. In this paper, we extend this work and c...