Government Ban Research Articles

Customer coalitions, monopoly price discrimination and generic entry deterrence

This paper analyzes the interplay between a profit-maximizing monopolist and a set of consumers who are able to form coalitions that bargain with the monopolist and/or integrate into production. We show that the monopolist will deter the formation of these ‘countervailing’ coalitions through strategic selection of ‘generic’ limit price offers to each consumer. These limit prices are derived as subgame perfect equilibria in two alternative models of customer- monopoly interplay. In both models, price discrimination emerges in environments wherein it has previously been considered unprofitable. Welfare analysis of the equilibria demonstrates the procompetitive effects of potential customer coalitions and generally provides an efficiency-based motivation for a government ban on price discrimination.

Travel Agent Attitudes Toward China After Tiananmen Square

This study examines travel agents' attitudes toward the People's Republic of China (PRC) following the events of Summer 1989. Travel agents opposed both a government ban on travel and an industry-organized boycott of travel to the PRC, and emphasized letting the public make an informed choice concerning travel to China. The opinion of these agents was that it will take at least until the period of Fall 1990 to Fall 1991 for travel to China to return to pre-June 1989 levels. Recovery may be slower, however, because agents who historically booked the most travel to the PRC expressed the most hostile attitudes toward the PRC. '

Oral tobacco: prevalence, health risks, dependence potential and public policy

This paper discusses public health policy with regard to oral tobacco use. It notes that in the UK, oral tobacco use is extremely rare. Concern that it might become prevalent among schoolchildren has proved unfounded. Smokeless tobacco almost certainly carries health risks but these risks are probably less than from smoking. What little evidence exists suggests that smokeless tobacco may be less dependence-inducing than cigarettes. In the light of this, the UK Government's decision to ban oral tobacco products is hard to reconcile with their continuing to permit the sale and advertising of cigarettes. A cynic would view the Government's ban as a 'no cost' measure to placate the public health lobby and ease the pressure for more restrictions on cigarette promotion. The inconsistency in the Government's approach to Skoal Bandits and cigarettes may be used as a focus for pressure to change in the laws governing promotion of cigarettes.

Gender and Public Opinion: Defense and Nuclear Issues in New Zealand

This article examines gender-based differences in the New Zealand public's view of defense and nuclear issues. During the last few years defense and nuclear concerns have become important political issues in New Zealand. Indeed, in 1984 the New Zealand government banned nuclear capable warships, almost all of which are American, from the country's ports. Public opinion about these matters is divided along gender lines. As has been discovered in other research, New Zealand women are more likely than men to either not respond to survey questions about foreign policy issues or, if they do answer, to express a pacific viewpoint on these issues. Age also affects nuclear and defense opinion. Age combined with gender has a dramatic impact of opinion differentiation: young New Zealand women are substantially more pacific than their older male compatriots. A linkage between these attitudes and behavioral preferences is also discussed. Through path analysis it is shown that gender does affect voting intention. The effect, however is indirect. It is mediated through a series of interrelated attitudinal clusters. Women are more anxious about the prospects and destructiveness of war. This perspective may well be a product of gender-related socialization experiences. This general anxiety shapes attitudes about the New Zealand government's ban on nuclear ships. Views toward the ban influence feelings about the relationship between New Zealand and the US which became strained after the controversy precipitated by the ban. These feelings of strained friendship, in turn, influence voting preference. Hence gender-based opinion differences appear to affect behavioral intentions, at least in New Zealand.

Rhinos and daggers: a major conservation problem

North Yemen still imports rhino horn to make dagġer handles, despite the government ban in 1982. As rhino numbers continue on their precipitous decline, it is imperative that conservationists act now. Protection of rhinos in Situ is failing as poachers take more and more risks for greater financial gain. The author proposes urgent action, which includes exerting pressure on the appropriate governments.

Students: Are they really so conservative?

Abstract In order to test the proposition that students in the late 1970s were markedly more conservative than the students of the late 1960s, a sample of 550 University of Queensland students was surveyed in September 1979 employing a questionnaire similar to that administered to 272 Queensland students in 1969. The contemporaneous campaign against the Queensland government's ban on street marches, providing as it did frequent opportunities for participation in protest, facilitated comparison at the level of participation in protest as well as that of attitudes. Although students’ political party preferences had moved to the left, the pattern of attitude change was less consistent, the most marked and consistent change being the decline in confidence in political authorities. Although students’ views of protest politics were no less favourable, their preparedness to participate had declined. Perhaps the most striking change was, however, the rise in interest and participation in politics amongst women.

Effects of foam insulation ban far reaching

The government ban on urea-formaldehyde foam as an insulation material for homes is discussed. Resultant economic hardships are projected not only for the primary industry but for other industries using formaldehyde in their products. The loss of realty value for homeowners who used the foam is also a topic. Criteria for making the controversial ban are given. (PSB)

Camouflage, Conspiracy, and Collaborators: Rumors of the Revolution

A well-educated, wealthy, 35-year-old woman from Tehran reported the following: “Someone I know has a man working for him whose brother is a gravedigger. He dug graves for those murdered in Jaleh Square 40 days ago. He said they needed a bulldozer to dig the ground for all the dead. An entire tent was filled with chadors. Fifty thousand people were killed.”The Jaleh Square incident of Tehran was a momentous event in the Iranian revolution, marking popular revolt against the shah's regime by the people, and retaliatory atrocities by the shah's army against the people. Although demonstrations and killings in other cities after Jaleh Square were no less dramatic, Jaleh Square remains in the minds of nearly everyone in Iran as the principal episode of innocent citizens slaughtered. Yet, details and facts pertaining to the event are undocumented. What is known is that thousands of people participated in a massive antishah demonstration on Thursday, September 7, 1978, to demand the resignation of the shah, defying a government ban on rallies.

Some results of an Irish family planning survey.

SummaryFrom a survey conducted in the Republic of Ireland, data are given on the opinions of 754 married women and 194 husbands regarding the Government ban on and the desired availability of contraception. Data are given stating the extent of family planning and the methods used.

China-Burma Relations since the Rift

Research Article| August 01 1972 China-Burma Relations since the Rift Robert A. Holmes Robert A. Holmes Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1972) 12 (8): 686–700. https://doi.org/10.2307/2643109 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Robert A. Holmes; China-Burma Relations since the Rift. Asian Survey 1 August 1972; 12 (8): 686–700. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/2643109 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentAsian Survey Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1972 Regents of the University of California Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

A Catholic People's College

During the summer of 1944 a ‘Catholic People’s Week’ was advertised to be held during August at Walsingham. The Government ban on certain coastal areas forced the organisers to cancel their arrangements. As considerable interest in the project was aroused it will not be out of place to explain here the ultimate aims the organisers had in mind and the plans they have made for future action.Educational reform is much to the fore at the moment. But the schemes to be put into operation are mainly concerned with the education of children. Many thinkers are convinced there is an equally if not more urgent need to provide for the education of adults. The acknowledged leader in this field is Sir Richard Livingstone, whose The Future in Education states unanswerably the case for adult education.The human mind and will, the human senses and emotions, are never at rest. They are always open to the million influences of experience. Whether we realise, it or not, our own individual minds and wills are constantly fed and attracted by the realities of our daily round. Education should fit us to dominate these influences, to reject the unsound and absorb the wholesome. It should give us a high standard of discernment and firmness of character. Were we to drift and allow mind and will to submit passively to the flux of modern life with its press, radio, cinemas and factories, we should hardly succeed in retaining anything worthy of the name of personal autonomy. We do react, but do we react according to truth? Are our choices arbitrary, instinctive, thoughtless?

The Yen and the Sword

CURRENCY has proved to be one of the decisive weapons in the present war between Japan and China. Much though its importance is underrated by many close observers of the great conflict, the two participants have long been well aware of this fact. More than two years before military hostilities actually started, the SinoJapanese currency war was already in full swing. The Japanese took the offensive when they attempted, early in I935, to link North China's currency with that of the Bloc. It was hoped that by this means the five big northern provinces could be severed from China and virtually conquered by Japan, without any expenditure of blood and ammunition. It was not only by Japan's diplomatic and military pressure, coupled with a great variety of subversive political activities in North China, that this scheme was to be forced on the unwilling country. China's old and obsolete silver currency being in a precarious state at that time, the Japanese realized the chances of direct, aggressive action in the monetary field itself. This took the form of an attempt at denuding China, and especially the Northern provinces, of silver, the legal tender. Under the careful direction of the Japanese authorities on the spot, therefore, very large quantities of silver coins and bars were bought up by Japanese agents in the North, at the abnormally low prices, measured in terms of foreign exchange, which then prevailed in China. In spite of the Chinese Government's ban on silver exports, it was smuggled out to Japan, where its arrival was not shown in the official import returns. But the re-shipping of the silver to Britain was done quite openly, Japan's official foreign trade statistics giving a total of more than Yen 275,000,000 of such silver exports for the years from I934 to I936. The Chinese origin of the metal was obvious enough, for Japan is not itself a producer of