James N. Barnes

TL;DR: In this article, the potential impacts on voluntary water use restrictions and welfare resulting from credible and binding future use-limit regulations are investigated. But, without the extreme credible threat of moratorium, users do not significantly volunteer to reduce extraction rates.

TL;DR: The TCT model can be used by rural hospital administrators to assess economic incentives for physician recruitment and predicts that hospitals tend to favor contractual arrangements in which physicians are full-time employees if investments in physical or other assets made by hospitals cannot be easily redeployed for other services in the health care system.

TL;DR: The estimated results show that CAHs are less cost, technical and allocative efficient than non-CAH rural hospitals and the results also show that Medicare cost-based reimbursement forCAHs has a negative effect on the efficiency of these hospitals while Medicare prospective payment system for non-CAH rural hospitals has a positive effect on hospital efficiency.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a set of grant writing guidelines they have used when working with agricultural producers in Louisiana and apply these guidelines to help producers understand the grant writing and application process for the United States Department of Agriculture's Value-Added Producer Grant (VAPG) program.

TL;DR: Testing sensitivity of model specification on the choice of contractual physician arrangements by hospitals through use of spatially defined covariates, rural/urban subset models, and geographically weighted regression models shows that hospitals are significantly influenced by neighboring hospitals' physician arrangement choices.