Publications

1985
Chapter

Food Policy

By: James E. Austin

Keywords: Food; Policy; Government and Politics; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

winter 1985
Article

The Nonpecuniary Costs of Automobile Emissions Standards

By: Timothy F. Bresnahan and Dennis Yao

An important component of the costs of automotive air-pollution control has been nonpecuniary: a decline in vehicle performance characteristics. This regulatory impact on what the auto industry calls "drivability" has never been quantified, although there is... View Details

Keywords: Transportation; Pollutants; Cost; Standards; Performance; Quality; Auto Industry

December 1984
Article

An Approach for Developing an Optimal Discount Pricing Policy

By: R. Lal and Richard Staelin

Keywords: Price; Policy

November 1984 (Revised March 1985)
Case

Restructuring European Petrochemicals: French Companies and the French Government

By: Francis Aguilar, Joseph L. Bower and Benjamin Gomes-Casseres

Keywords: Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry; Chemical Industry; France

November 1984 (Revised March 1985)
Case

Restructuring European Petrochemicals: Industry Groups and the European Commission

By: Francis Aguilar, Joseph L. Bower and Benjamin Gomes-Casseres

Keywords: Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry; Chemical Industry; Europe

November 1984
Article

Nutrition Policies and Programmes: A Decade of Redirection

By: Alan Berg and James E. Austin

Keywords: Food; Policy; Programs

1984
Book

Energy Policy in America Since 1945: A Study of Business-Government Relations

By: Richard Vietor

Follows the history of government intervention in U.S. energy markets from 1945 to the present and shows how shifting market conditions of surplus and shortage and above all, price have played a determining role in the political process and U.S. fuel policy... View Details

Keywords: Political Economy; United States; Postwar Policy; Energy; Energy Sources; Policy; United States

Article

Political Forecasting as a Management Tool

By: James E. Austin and David Yoffie

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Government and Politics; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

August 1984
Case

American Industrial Health Council (Condensed)

By: Joseph L. Bower

Keywords: Working Conditions; Business and Government Relations

August 1984
Case

Work of a Regulatory Agency: The EPA and Toxic Substances (Condensed)

By: Joseph L. Bower

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Pollutants; Public Administration Industry

August 1984 (Revised June 1985)
Teaching Note

Antitrust Movement: Symbolic Politics and Industrial Organization Economics, Teaching Note

By: Richard S. Tedlow

Keywords: Monopoly; Government and Politics

June 1984
Case

Federal Trade Commission and the Shared Monopoly Case against the Ready-to-Eat Cereal Manufacturers

By: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Monopoly; Courts and Trials; Food and Beverage Industry; United States

April 1984
Background Note

Export Controls

By: David B. Yoffie

Explores the problems and opportunities associated with export controls--one of the most widely used tools of international trade policy in the 1970s and early 1980s; and the role of the United States and Soviet Union as major players in the international economy.... View Details

Keywords: Macroeconomics; Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Problems and Challenges; Opportunities; Soviet Union; United States

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