You broke the law. There should be a law. Loi du 29 juillet 1881 sur la liberté de la presse. It's God's law. It's the law of our ancestors. It's a law of nature. It's the second law of thermodynamics. It's the tax code. What is law? What common concept is expressed in the many uses of the word...

The paper examines an array of issues regarding the development of standard through both consensus and non-consensus processes. Key areas of inquiry included the growing importance of market-driven consortia (MDCs), potential benefits and problems from use of non-consensus processes, ANSI's...

The paper reviews the economic literature's treatment of marginal costs in two-sided markets is discussed below with particular emphasis on literature discussing the payment card market. An underlying issue explored in this paper is the how financial reform legislation's use of the term...

Virtually every aspect of the 340B drug discount program has been evaluated except its effectiveness at improving healthcare access for medically underserved populations. This paper seeks to fill this information gap by using federal data to measure changes in the ability of impoverished and...

Voluntary consensus standards are a salubrious antidote to the pervasive cynicism about public institutions; the consensus standards process demonstrates that industry, civil society, academia, and government benefit the world by working together through a stable, sustained, and voluntary...

Based on case examples, the paper discusses how efforts to weaponize poverty, i.e., policies that use a low income population segment’s economic status as the fulcrum in an attempt to alter behavior, can and do backfire. The paper was developed in response to the US Food and Drug...

Medicare’s competitive bidding regulations for Durable Medical Equipment (DME) create an acquisition program that has the form, but not the function, of an auction. Federal and academic experts have explained that CMS’ design for the bidding program violates accepted tenets of auction...