Producer Protection Legislation and Termination Damages in the Presence of Contracting Frictions This study models producer protection legislation that would grant growers the right to claim damages (PPLD) if their contracts are prematurely terminated. In the absence of contracting frictions that prevent contractors from redesigning contracts to accommodate exogenous policy changes, PPLD would ...

Abstract Increased pressures on agri-food systems have indicated the importance of intermediaries to facilitate sustainability transitions. While producer organizations are acknowledged as between individual producers and other food system actors, their role transition remains understudied. This paper explores potential support in needs adopt sustainable production practices. Ten cases conventi...

An important form of user innovation – Internet-supported collaborative design of new products and services by user communities – is likely to progressively supplant producer product and service design in many fields. This shift will require changes in governments’ innovation policies, for example, with respect to intellectual property rights. We discuss some general categories of innovation po...

Proof-carrying code (PCC) allows a code producer to associate to a program a machine-checkable proof of its safety. In traditional implementations of PCC the producer negotiates beforehand, and in an unspecified way, with the consumer the permission to prove safety in whatever high-level way it chooses. In practice this has meant that highlevel rules for type safety have been hard-wired into th...

The paper analyses operational coordination mechanisms between a producer and a supplier within a supply chain having private local information. For a make to order production setting the coordination is achieved through the combined use of a task-oriented and a control-oriented type of instrument. The task-oriented instrument describes the producer s procurement policy for components whereas t...

This paper studies a market for medical product in which there is perfect competition among health insurers, while the good sold by monopolist. Individuals differ their severity of illness and ex post moral hazard. We consider two regimes: one insurers use coinsurance rates (ad valorem reimbursements) copayments (specific reimbursements). show that induced equilibrium with involves lower produc...

* Policy Analyst, Genetics and Public Policy Center; Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland Law School; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1993; M.P.H., Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 2000; Former Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics & Health Policy, Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities. ** Research Assistant, Genetics and Public Policy Center, December 2002-December 2003; J.D., Loy...

Extended producer responsibility (EPR) embodies the notion that producers should be made physically or financially responsible for the environmental impacts their products have at the end of product life. The EPR concept has taken hold in Europe and is garnering wide interest in the United States, where a variant known as “shared product responsibility” or “product stewardship” is usually the p...