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In this piece, I take issue with one of the fundamental tenets of law and economics as it has been used to justify gender discrimination in the pricing of life insurance and annuities, namely, that individuals should bear their own identifiable costs so as to avoid misallocation of society's...
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Presented at the policy workshop on:The role of agricultural and rural development in a changing international …On actual agricultural markets, price rarely equate marginal cost. Thus, agricultural policy should be focused on … generalized “quota” system would in addition provide safer instruments for environmental policy. …
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that ISPs enter into. So far, the only known practical safe and robust routing policy is Gao and Rexford's policy guideline … mutual transit agreements. We propose a series of policy guidelines that allow mutual transit agreements with progressively … broader semantics to be established. Those policy guidelines guarantee routing safety and robustness as long as the AS graph …
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Among the vast amounts of personal information published on the World Wide Web (“Web”) and indexed by search engines are lists of names of people. Examples include employees at companies, students enrolled in universities, officers in the military, law enforcement personnel, members of...
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We used an iterative design process to develop a privacy label that presents to consumers the ways organizations collect, use, and share personal information. Many surveys have shown that consumers are concerned about online privacy, yet current mechanisms to present website privacy policies...
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online user study of 789 participants to test if these three more intentionally designed, standardized privacy policy formats …, assisted by consumer education, can benefit consumers. Our results show that providing standardized privacy policy …
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The paper models the policy challenges facing globalizing developing countries. Models from the pure theory of … diversification and currency crises models are reviewed to distil policy guidelines to promote the globalization of developing … offers new policy vistas for promoting globalization in developing countries. …
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In the Philippines, where rice is considered the most important food crop, attempts to influence rice prices have been prevalent. The government, through National Food Authority (NFA) has sought to establish stocks and control imports to stabilize prices since its establishment in 1972 to...
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In 2009, workers and their families across the country felt the impact of serious economic downturn, with unemployment reaching a 26-year high. While recent news suggests things may be improving, we cannot forget that for many low-wage and hourly workers -- who now represent over a quarter of...
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behavior between these two approaches, then this may indicate that the current tax policy institutions are failing and need …
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