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Foreign Students and Scholars and the United States Tax System
(Journal of Law & Education, 1994)
During the 1992-1993 school year, more than 425,000 students from other countries were studying in the United States. In addition, hundreds of foreign nationals were in the United States as research scholars, visiting ...
Mortality Effects of Regulatory Costs and Policy Evaluation Criteria
(The RAND of Economics, 1994)
Risk regulations directly reduce risks, but they may produce offsetting risk increases. Regulated risks generate a substitution effect, as individuals' risk-averting actions will diminish. Recognition of these effects ...
The 200,000 Cards of Dimitri Yurasov: Further Reflections on Scholarship and Truth
(Stanford Law Review, 1994)
Last April, Professors Daniel Farber and Suzanna Sherry published a critique in these pages of the legal storytelling movement. Their legal position has been the subject of several responses, including an essay by Professor ...
Superfund and Real Risks
(The American Enterprise, 1994)
An analysis of the Superfund program represents the first systematic effort to document the character of the risks addressed by this legislation, which will in turn determine the total cleanup cost and the degree to which ...
Equivalent Frames of Reference for Judging Risk Regulation Policies
(N.Y.U. Environmental Law Journal, 1994)
Although the design of risk regulations has not yet attained what might be termed the economist's ideal of maximizing the difference between benefits and costs, substantial progress has been made in the design of regulatory ...
Job Matching and Women's Wage-Tenure Profile
(Applied Economics, 1994)
Recently, researchers have challenged the validity of the dominant theories of wage growth, claiming that the observed positive relation between wages and tenure is an artefact of omitted job match quality. In sharp contrast ...
The Impact of Environmental Liabilities on Privatization in Central and Eastern Europe: A Case Study of Poland
(University of California at Davis Law Review, 1994)
The Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries are breaking up their centrally planned economies at a record pace by selling formerly state-owned industrial enterprises to private sector investors. Privatization is expected ...
Human Health Risk Assessments for Superfund
(Ecology Law Quarterly, 1994)
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) is scheduled for reauthorization in the spring of 1995, and Congress must decide either to continue the Superfund program in its current ...
Deterring Inefficient Pharmaceutical Litigation: An Economic Rationale for the FDA Regulatory Compliance Defense
(Seton Hall Law Review, 1994)
This Article examines the interaction between direct regulation of pharmaceuticals under the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) and the indirect regulation of pharmaceuticals provided by common law tort incentives. ...
A Statistical Profile of Pharmaceutical Industry Liability, 1976-1989
(Seton Hall Law Review, 1994)
There is little question that the imposition of constraints on awards and other pro-defendant changes in the liability regime will reduce liability costs. However, the patterns observed in the federal courts are quite ...