We study the second-price offer feature of eBay auctions in which the seller has multiple units. Perhaps surprisingly, the opportunity to make second-chance offers can reduce seller profit. This happens if her marginal cost function is sufficiently steep. Hence, sellers should be wary about the possibility that buyers anticipate second-chance offers, and it may be advantageous for a seller to a...

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To the Editor of The Hospital and Health Review. Sir,?It may be of interest to you to know that, as the result of recent negotiations with the Ministry of Health, the following Committee of the Sheffield Hospitals' Council has been authorised by the Voluntary Hospitals' Commission to be the Local Voluntary Hospitals' Committee for this area Representing the City Corporation? The Lord Mayor (Aid...

to The Times under date December 6, in which Sir Alfred Mond, the'Minister of Health, sets forth the policy of the Government with regard to the voluntary hospitals :? I trust that you will allow me an opportunity of replying to the letter of the Bishop of Birmingham which appeared in The Times on the 2nd inst. A charge of inhumanity is a grave charge to make against any public Department, but ...

We investigate in a duopoly setting the consequences of competitive mobile targeting, the practice of firms' setting prices based on consumers' real-time locations. A distinct market feature of mobile targeting is that a consumer could travel across different locations for an offer that minimizes his total cost of buying. This cherry-picking opportunity imposes constraints on firms to carefully...

In response to the Institute of Medicine's To Err Is Human report on the prevalence of medical errors, the Leapfrog Group, an organization that promotes hospital safety and quality, established a voluntary hospital survey assessing compliance with several safety standards. Using data from the period 2002-07, we conducted the first longitudinal assessment of how hospitals in specific cities and ...

Although there is no clear concept of volition or the will, we do have intuitive ideas that characterize the will, agency, and voluntary behavior. Here I review results from a number of strands of neuroscientific research that bear upon our intuitive notions of the will. These neuroscientific results provide some insight into the neural circuits mediating behaviors that we identify as related t...

The ability to perform an appropriate response in the presence of competing alternatives is a critical facet of human behavioral control. This is especially important if a response is prepared for execution but then has to be changed suddenly. A popular hypothesis of basal ganglia (BG) function suggests that its direct and indirect pathways could provide a neural mechanism to rapidly switch fro...

Activity of mecillinam against ESBL producers in vitro K. Thomas, M. J. Weinbren*, M. Warner, N. Woodford and D. Livermore Department of Microbiology, Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital, University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire, Stoney Stanton Road, Coventry CV1 4FH, UK; Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring and Reference Laboratory, Centre for Infections, Health Protection Agency, 61 Colin...