{"title":"An Identity in Disarray: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Government-Agency Status","authors":"Adam Shajnfeld","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1717247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1717247","url":null,"abstract":"In the last three years, the world has experienced one of the worst banking catastrophes in its history. In the United States alone, some 282 banks have failed since January 2008. This burgeoning devastation has catapulted the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) to the forefront of crisis-management as it acts as receiver for each of these failed institutions. With high stakes, vast consequences, and little time to dither, the receivership process and its participants require stable, clear and predictable jurisprudence. One issue, however, continues to elude these jurisprudential virtues: is the FDIC, when acting as a failed bank’s receiver, considered an agency of the United States, or merely a private party? Surprisingly, the answer is far from clear, and the ramifications significant and numerous. Years of judicial analysis have produced cacophony, not chorus, and there is a startling absence of scholarly exposition. This article, after outlining the problem, delineates and critically evaluates two solutions.","PeriodicalId":402940,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Governmentally Owned Firms (Topic)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126915178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bridging the Divide - Commercial Procurement and Supply Chain Management: Are There Lessons for Health Care Commissioning in England?","authors":"B. Allen, Elizabeth Wade, H. Dickinson","doi":"10.1108/JOPP-09-01-2009-B003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/JOPP-09-01-2009-B003","url":null,"abstract":"Current English health policy is focused on strengthening the ‘demand-side’ of the health care system. Recent reforms are designed to significantly enhance the capability and status of the organisations responsible for commissioning health care services and, in so doing, to address some of the perceived problems of a historically provider/supplierled health system. In this context, commissioning organisations are being encouraged to draw on concepts and processes derived from commercial procurement and supply chain management (SCM) as they develop their expertise. While the application of such principles in the health sector is not new, existing work in the UK has not often considered the role of health care purchasers in the management of health service supply-chains. This paper describes the status of commissioning in the NHS, briefly reviews the procurement and SCM literature and begins to explore the links between them. It lays the foundations for further work which will test the extent to which lessons can be extracted in principle from the procurement literature and applied in practice by health care commissioners.","PeriodicalId":402940,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Governmentally Owned Firms (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134484750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}