Regulatory Policy

Who Will Get Custody of Santabear?

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

When the decreasingly-profitable Dayton-Hudson Corporation, one of Minnesota's most prominent retailers and largest firms, becomes the target of takeover offers, its appears to have little hope of warding off a hostile suitor. In desperation, it...

DARPA and High Definition Systems: For Home or For War?

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

The increase in military budgets during the 1980s set off renewed discussion of the impact of Pentagon spending on the civilian economy. Like the powdered orange juice developed by NASA for astronauts, could items developed for the military be...

The Regulation of Mud Flaps

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

When Congress calls for new regulations governing the size and effectiveness of truck mud flaps, small companies which had dominated the mud flap market suddenly find themselves in trouble. Failure to adapt their products to the new regulations...

Who Should Pay for San Onofre Nuclear Power Plants?

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

This case, drawn from proceedings of the California Public Utilities Commission, examines the financial implications for a utility of heightened scrutiny of a nuclear power plant project. The CPUC was due to begin hearings in December 1985 on a...

Managing Environmental Risk: The Case of Asarco (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In July 1983, EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus issued proposed regulations to control arsenic emissions from copper smelting and glass manufacturing plants. At the same time, he announced that EPA would involve residents of the Tacoma,...

Managing Environmental Risk: The Case of Asarco

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In July 1983, EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus issued proposed regulations to control arsenic emissions from copper smelting and glass manufacturing plants. At the same time, he announced that EPA would involve residents of the Tacoma,...

HIV and DC: The AIDS Testing Issue

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In November 1985, District of Columbia Councilmember John Ray introduced a bill that would have imposed a five-year moratorium on all kinds of applicant AIDS-testing in the district by health, life, and disability insurers. Ray wrote the bill...

The SEC and EDGAR

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

When the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission decided to try to improve the speed and spread of the new information about firms contained in SEC filings, he turned to a computer system. On one level, the Electronic Data Gathering,...

Who Will Pay for Seabrook?

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

In the fall of 1987, the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission faced an electric rate decision with far-reaching consequences. Ostensibly, the commission had only to decide whether to grant an emergency 15 percent rate increase to the...

Denise Fleury and the MN Office of State Claims

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

When Denise Fleury left the insurance industry to become head of the Minnesota Office of State Claims in June 1984, she knew the job would be challenging. Recent changes in state law had changed and broadened the mission of the state claims...

Department of Transportation and Airport Landing Slots (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

The ability of commercial airlines to fly their planes means little without a space in which to land them. In some congested US airports, the times and spots for landing are known as "landing slots" and have been assigned to airlines at the...

Department of Transportation and Airport Landing Slots

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

The ability of commercial airlines to fly their planes means little without a space in which to land them. In some congested US airports, the times and spots for landing are known as "landing slots" and have been assigned to airlines at the...