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Optimal demand for treatment and health insurance under multivariate preferences
Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.Abstract Health insurance mitigates health risks by covering the cost of treatment, but it also reduces the financial risk associated with those costs. In a multivariate preference framework, this study analyzes the effects of changes in wealth, health status, insurance premiums, treatment costs, and the severity of health loss on the demand for ...
Jimin Hong
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Dynamic capital allocation in general insurance
Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.Abstract This paper provides a model for allocating capital to different insurance lines with varying development periods for a value‐maximizing insurance company. In our model, the company makes capitalization and exposure decisions considering its capital level and its relevant loss history.
Qiheng Guo +2 more
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The Impact of Autonomous Truck Technology on US Interstate Trade
Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent advances in autonomous and semi‐autonomous vehicle technologies promise substantial cost savings for goods shipped by truck. In this study, we quantify the impacts of these transport cost reductions on the US interstate trade using a structural gravity model of domestic trade. Based on projected cost savings from the widespread adoption
Taejun Mo +4 more
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Shape of Water: Power Dynamics for Supply Chain Resilience
Journal of Supply Chain Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The world is facing climate change‐driven disruptions such as extreme weather events, which affect nature as well as firms and their supply chains. Nonetheless, little is known about how supply chain players shape their socioecological resilience, including from a power perspective.
Aristides R. Oliveira Junior +3 more
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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Examining work by Rowan Williams, this essay explores what he often refers to as the ‘difficulty’ of writing theology. The difficulty of theology lies in engaging the ruse of having ultimate answers to ultimate questions. The stakes are high: ‘God‐talk’ must concern itself with truth, with reality.
Graham Ward
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US Federal Budgets and Federal Employee Job Satisfaction
Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.Abstract Researchers have long studied how organizational budgets relate to performance, but how do employees themselves experience the effects of budgetary decisions? Given widespread attention to political dysfunction in US federal budgeting, conventional wisdom holds that employees are negatively affected by budgetary uncertainty (volatility, delays,
Nathan Favero, Carla Flink, Tingli Qu
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GmDOF3.1‐GmCPX Module Regulates Nodulation and Nitrogen Fixation Abilities in Soybean
Plant Biotechnology Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Soybean nodule nitrogen fixation is very important, which can provide a large amount of nitrogen supply for its own growth and that of other crops, but the mechanism is largely unclear. In the present study, a coproporphyrinogen oxidase gene, GmCPX, was identified to facilitate soybean nodulation and nitrogen‐fixation under the regulation of ...
Xinzhu Xing +10 more
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Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.Dam removals are increasing globally, yet ecological outcomes vary widely because biological recovery depends on post‐removal connectivity and access to source populations. We evaluated how multiple dam removals and remaining fragmentation influenced fish assemblage recovery in the Cuyahoga River (OH, United States), a historically polluted Great Lakes
Matthew R. Acre +14 more
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Annals of "Dunărea de Jos" University of Galaţi: Fascicle XI Shipbuilding, 2016 For the river shipping the transported cargo values have to be computed based on the DS-draught survey records. Differences for cargo masses are recorded between DS and the on-shore weight.
Florin Pacuraru +3 more
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