AbstractThe lead article in the Hastings Center Report's November‐December 2020 issue reconsiders the rationale for requiring that patients have a prescription from a physician to obtain a drug. Madison Kilbride, Steve Joffe, and Holly Fernandez Lynch conclude that growing respect for patient autonomy should lead to a new default for drug access: drugs
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Contracting with Third Parties [PDF]
In bilateral holdup and moral hazard in teams models, introducing a third party allows implementation of the first best, even if renegotiation is possible. Fines paid to the third party provide incentives for truth-telling and investment. This result holds even if the third party is corruptible, as long as the grand coalition has access to the same ...
Sandeep Baliga, Tomas Sjöström
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Real or not? Identifying untrustworthy news websites using third-party partnerships [PDF]
Untrustworthy content such as fake news and clickbait have become a pervasive problem on the Internet, causing significant socio-political problems around the world. Identifying untrustworthy content is a crucial step in countering them. The current best-
Gopal, Ram +5 more
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Audits and inspections are never enough: a critique to enhance food safety [PDF]
Internal and external food safety audits are conducted to assess the safety and quality of food including on-farm production, manufacturing practices, sanitation, and hygiene. Some auditors are direct stakeholders that are employed by food establishments
Chapman, Benjamin J. +5 more
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Third-Party Data Providers Ruin Simple Mechanisms [PDF]
Motivated by the growing prominence of third-party data providers in online marketplaces, this paper studies the impact of the presence of third-party data providers on mechanism design.
Cai, Yang +5 more
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Stability, Fairness and Random Walks in the Bargaining Problem
We study the classical bargaining problem and its two canonical solutions, (Nash and Kalai-Smorodinsky), from a novel point of view: we ask for stability of the solution if both players are able distort the underlying bargaining process by reference to a
Kapeller, Jakob, Steinerberger, Stefan
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Accountability in International Project Finance: The Equator Principles and the Creation of Third-Party-Beneficiary Status for Project-Affected Communities [PDF]
The creation of a third-party-beneficiary interest is a method to police the actions of entities doing business abroad. This Note discusses the viability of gleaning from the Principles a third-party-beneficiary right for project-affected communities to
Marco, Marissa
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Investigating brand equity of third-party service providers [PDF]
Purpose: This research applies theory and techniques from the services and marketing literature to a supply chain context consisting of a shipper or seller, a customer or buyer, and a third-party logistics service provider (3PL) to investigate corporate ...
Grant, David +3 more
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Inter Organizational Relationships Performance in Third Party Logistics: conceptual framework and case study [PDF]
Supplier relationship management is an important challenge for shippers in logistics outsourcing. This paper attempts to understand the factors which affect inter organizational relationships performance in third party logistics and proposes a conceptual
Aziz, Romana +2 more
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Third party referrals in the venture capital financing process : do network ties matter? [PDF]
In this paper we focus on the role of third party referrals in the venture capital funding process. Taking network theory as our theoretical perspective we explore if and how third parties play a role in the funding process.
Heuven, Joris
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