Business Economics, April 2007

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From the Editor

Jonathan McCarthy and Charles Steindel: Housing Activity and Consumer Spending

David Broomhall: Dynamic Adjustments in Transfer Pricing Agreements

Frederick C. Dunbar and Faten Sabry: The Propensity To Sue: Why Do People Seek Legal Actions?

Paul Hughes-Cromwick, Sarah Root, and Charles Roehrig: Consumer-Driven Healthcare: Information, Incentives, Enrollment, and Implications for National Health Expenditures

Masaharu Takenaka, New Dimensions of Financial Liberalization in Japan

Focus on Statistics

Robert P. Parker: New Monthly Hours and Earnings Measures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Current Employment Statistics Program

Book Reviews

Michael Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, Redefining Health Care: Creating Volume-Based Competition on Results
Review by John C. Goodman