RICHMOND, Va., April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Water knows no boundaries, except
when it becomes a scarce commodity. Drought conditions in much of the Fifth
District last year made stop-gap measures such as water rationing the norm in
some areas. But is there a better fix? In the new issue of Region Focus,
Betty Joyce Nash looks at alternative market-based measures at work in the
West that have piqued the interest of regional policymakers.
Also in this issue:
* Interview: Vernon Smith, co-winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics
* A Difficult Diagnosis: Are Malpractice Insurance Costs Driving Doctors
From West Virginia?
* Up in Smoke: Fifth District States Are Burning Through Their Tobacco
Settlement Funds
* To Tax or Not to Tax? States Ponder New Ways to Collect Taxes on Online
Sales
* Federal Reserve Feature: Inside the Richmond Fed's Regional Economics
Team
* Economic History Feature: Baltimore -- Story of a Port Town
Region Focus, a quarterly business magazine published by the Federal
Reserve Bank of Richmond, covers the economy and business activities of the
District of Columbia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and
most of West Virginia.
For free copies of Region Focus, contact the Bank's Public Affairs
Department at 804.697.8109. The articles are available online at
http://www.rich.frb.org/pubs/regionfocus.
SOURCE Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
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CONTACT:
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