We study the effects of bicycle safety regulations in both the United States and the United Kingdom on bicycle accident rates for various population age groups. We find small, statistically significant decreases in the accident rates as the stock of bicycles increases its compliance with the...

This article examines the effect of three forms of regulation (rate of return, ceiling-price, and markup) upon the rate and direction of technical advance selected by a myopic profit maximizing firms. With a homothetic production function ceiling-price regulation induces a faster rate of...

This study analyzes the effect of bicycle safety regulation in the United States and the United Kingdom using data on monthly injury rates. Unlike many previous studies of product safety regulation, a specific product regulation is analyzed, and long data series are available. In both countries,...

A paper by Bultez and Naert in the May 1979 issue of Management Science tentatively concludes that profits are relatively insensitive to misspecification of the lag structure of advertising. We examine the conditions under which a firm's profits are most likely to be sensitive to the...