Physician organizations: two years under the FTC/DOJ guidelines

The joint antitrust enforcement statement for physician networks was designed in part to dispel uncertainty in the physician community about antitrust agency law enforcement intentions. In the two years since its issuance, the antitrust agencies have generally, but not always, been consistent in applying the methodology and standards set forth in their enforcement statement. Even though agency pronouncements like the enforcement statement are not binding on private parties or the federal courts, both the statement and subsequent advisory opinions and business review letters have been exceptionally helpful, if not always encouraging, to health care providers in their antitrust planning efforts.     

Racial Resentment,Electoral Loss,and Satisfaction with Democracy Among Whites in the United States: 2004–2016

Political Behavior - Satisfaction with democracy is a critical supporting element of any democratic process, though a robust literature demonstrates that such satisfaction is contingent on numerous...     

Federal Trade Commission drops challenge to California hospital acquisition

The significance of patient outmigration patterns, third-party payor reaction, and post-merger cost savings have been regularly argued by defense counsel and hospitals as important consideration in the antitrust evaluation of hospital mergers. The reliance placed by the Commission on these factors in its Ukiah decision is a welcome confirmation that the antitrust agencies are increasingly sensitive to these aspects of hospital mergers, reflecting a more sophisticated understanding of the health care market than was suggested by the staff's more mechanical evaluative approach. Hospitals and their counsel should therefore prepare for and document these factors if they anticipate antitrust agency scrutiny of a proposed acquisition or merger.     

Causality between transnational terrorism and tourism: The case of Spain

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to devise a methodology for estimating the impact of transnational terrorism on tourism. Using monthly data from 1970–1988, we estimate the relationship between terrorism and tourism for Spain. We find that terrorist events have had a significant negative impact on the number of tourists visiting Spain. A typical incident is estimated as scaring away just over 140,000 tourists when all monthly impacts are combined. Moreover, the causality is unidirectional: terrorism affects tourism, but not the reverse.     

New challenges for copyright protection - Co-Reach in IPR in New Media Workshop II

The Co-Reach IPR in New Media organised a workshop on ISP Liability in London on December 7, 2010 and an EU-China Copyright Policy meeting in Vienna from December 9-12, 2010. The Workshops come at the crucial time when new regulations are being crafted to tighten copyright protection in cyberspace.