While it is easy to see the obvious signs of current financial distress such as an overly leveraged
balance sheet, covenant defaults, or delayed payments to vendors, the more intriguing …

Leptin, produced in adipocytes, works through the central nervous system (CNS) to modulate
food intake and energy expenditure, resulting in rapid loss of body fat depots. It is now …

It has previously been reported that intracerebroventricular (ICV) administration of leptin
induced adipose tissue apoptosis in addition to influencing lipid metabolism. The objective of …

Sprague-Dawley rats were fed either a control diet (7 g/100 g soybean oil) or a conjugated
linoleic acid (CLA) diet (6.5 g/100 g soybean oil and 0.5 g/100 g CLA) beginning on d 7 of …

Conventional wisdom has it that in the 1930s fiscal policy did not work because it was not
tried. This paper shows that fiscal policy was tried in 1936. The veterans' bonus of 1936 paid 2 …

… And the Australian contingent valuation study failed the Diamond–Hausman test as I describe
below. The background situation is that cable TV companies in Australia retransmit the free…

The objective of this study was to determine the long-term effects of conjugated linoleic acid
(CLA) in pigs exposed to CLA during fetal and neonatal growth. Sows were fed a diet with …

… 9For the examination of foregone use, see the paper in this volume by Hausman, Leonard,
… Michael, 1991,“Willingness to Pay and Willingness to Accept: How Much Can They Differ?,” …

… in table 1, and to Paul Joskow, Jerry Hausman, and Peter Reiss for valuable comments on
an earlier draft. I thank Elizabeth Demers and Michael Ting for excellent research assistance. …

… 9 The estimates in Hausman (1981) are based on a 1975 data sample, so we deflate 1986
dollars to 1975 levels using percentage changes in average hourly earnings. Since real …