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2022 SEP 3 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- New study results on cancer have been published. According to news originating [...]

From a drug price policy perspective, we might well describe the COVID-19 pandemic as an extended period of slack water, a prolonged moment unstressed in the tidal stream of price, [...]

INTRODUCTION In the face of skyrocketing prescription drug costs, ensuring the availability of affordable medications, or at least finding a way to contain these costs, has become a national concern. [...]

I. Introduction Empirical study of cartels, their operation, and their adaptation to legal prohibition, is inherently complicated. Because cartels are unlawful, they operate surreptitiously. We can have no really confident [...]

Auditors are under orders from regulators to assure management takes ownership for the fair-value measurements they outsource to pricing services rather than simply taking the third party's work at face [...]

Legal guidelines and case verdicts involving marketing functions are outlined and presented. Horizontal merger guidelines from, studies by and cases involving the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission are taken up under the regulation of monopolistic methods. Cases involving the regulation of product credit terms and conditions of sale are explicated. Price discrimination, price control and the regulation of marketing firms' operating features, buyer and seller relations and advertising and promotion are also considered in turn. Finally, the report of the General Accounting Office on the performance of the Antitrust Division from 1986 to 1990 is presented.

On October 22, 1993, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a Final Rule in Order 561, which creates a price-cap index to regulate oil pipeline rates. This index, effective [...]

The Trans-Atlantic Agreement (TAA) has filed a new tariff schedule which will clarify the expenses that shippers pay for. The new pricing strategy which is pending the approval of the Federal Maritime Commission also provides for the conversion to local currency of all applicable cargo charges in European ports. This policy will help reduce the risks associated with fluctuations of the US dollar and will also lead to the elimination of the Currency Adjsutment Factors. However, controversies surrounding a uniform-rate policy may delay approval of the proposed tariff schedule., It's a service a la carte. The shipper who wants a through rate can get it by adding up all the component charges. Or the shipper can use TAA's ocean [...]