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chain regulation has important ramifications for the future of regulating supply chain outsourcing …
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-sided markets. In addition, we argue that his "consumer welfare" criterion is misleading and liable to deceive, thus the hoax. The … Bork's definition of "consumer welfare" - it includes the economic rents of the firm - all at a cost to consumers … no producer's surplus - the estimated loss of consumers' welfare in $60.4 and $43.7 billion respectively from Google and …
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Platform businesses have been pivotal in the rise of the digital economy. Amazon is one example of a platform taking on the role of a quasi-regulator; an entity that is able to determine the terms of interaction on the platform. This intermediary position entails the danger of anti-competitive...
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markets for their potential for determining consumers' harm and welfare effects, as well as defining monopoly and predatory … pricing in this context. Initial estimates of Google's and Facebook's social cost in terms of consumers' welfare loss are $54 …
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Over the past decade, the United States has experienced a stunning 65% decline in undocumented immigration. While politicians seem unaware of this change, firms that once relied on local undocumented workers as a low-wage labor force feel it acutely. Such companies have increasingly applied to...
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Common Law Definition of Employment:What is the difference between an employee and an independent contractor? Both do work for pay; I do a job, and you pay me for it. It's not complicated — until government gets involved. Formal employees require paperwork, legal and regulatory compliance, and...
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the integration vs outsourcing decision - high potential cost savings of ‘unethical' production in an industry favor … international outsourcing and most strongly so for sourcing from low-regulation countries. Motivated by these findings, we introduce …)ethical technology choices of integrated as well as independent suppliers. We identify the unethical outsourcing incentive as a novel …
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Waste crimes create social and economic issues. Offenders commit crime due to either a lack of awareness of waste law or the belief that there is a low risk of being caught and punished. OECD countries are using digital tools to improve their use of resources with the aim to promote compliance...
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. By outsourcing the mechanisms that control admission to the bar, the legal profession has all but surrendered the most … outsourcing of the bar exam has privatized bar admission in ways that can be detrimental to the goal of public protection and … identify justifications for outsourcing a judicial regulatory function that is essential to the goals of self-regulation. This …
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