We study the buyer-seller relationship in a supply chain from the perspective of quality. In particular, weexamine situations where quality levels of the product can be observed, yet, conformance cannot be enforcedunless the buyer engages in costly, legally-binding activity, which we call audit....

This article reports the results of an empirical analysis of the impact of Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code, which was enacted in 2005 to replace the former Section 304. I examine all Section 304 motions filed in the three years before the change in law and all Chapter 15 filings following in...

Land Use Planning and Oil and Gas Leasing on Onshore Federal Lands -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- CORE RECOMMENDATIONS -- SUPPLEMENTARY RECOMMENDATIONS -- REFERENCE -- 1 Introduction -- ORIGIN OF THIS REPORT -- THE PROBLEM -- ORGANIZATION OF THIS REPORT -- REFERENCES...

Hydrocarbon production from the UK Continental Shelf has now passed its peak. Net gas import requirements started in 2004 and increase substantially. The remaining reserves of both oil and gas are substantial, but are distributed largely in relatively small fields. Historically, depletion policy...

Russia is one of the key players in the Arctic with ambitions to continue development its Arctic oil resources. Nowadays the only fully launched oil and gas offshore project in Russia is the platform Prirazlomnaya, a number of other projects are at the various stages of realization and their...