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Restructuring Health Insurance Markets [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Examines six possible structural changes to the health insurance market to expand coverage, including rate compression, high-risk pools, and an insurance exchange.
Elliot K. Wicks
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Designing Cost‐Effective Carbon Payments to Induce Cellulosic Feedstock Production for Sustainable Aviation Fuel

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Perennial bioenergy crops, such as miscanthus and switchgrass, and crop residues have the potential to scale up sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production and mitigate carbon emissions. However, high establishment costs, delayed returns, and risk–return profiles that diverge from those of conventional crops can hinder incentives to adopt ...
Fahd Majeed, Madhu Khanna, Ruiqing Miao
wiley   +1 more source

Insurance Intermediaries

open access: yesCECCAR Business Review
The insurance contract is concluded between the insured and the insurer. However, insurance relations may also involve other persons than the insured and the insurer, for example, the insurance contractor, the beneficiary, the person covered by the ...
Ioana Nely MILITARU
doaj   +1 more source

Reinsurance in State Health Reform [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Based on the experiences of three states, formal modeling, quantitative estimates, and qualitative assessments, explores the impact of and issues involved in publicly funding reinsurance for insurers as a way to expand or maintain private ...
Bowen Garrett   +3 more
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
wiley   +1 more source

STUDY ON THE MAIN THEORETICAL ASPECTS RELATING TO THE PREMIUM TARIFFS IN THE PROPERTY INSURANCE [PDF]

open access: yesAnalele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie, 2012
In the insurance market of goods, most of the first levied by the insurer is used for payment of damages due insured. The element mainly depending on which he fixes the level of share premium pricing is likely to size claims the insurer will pay insured.
Vaduva Maria
doaj  

The Rate-Making Process in Property and Casualty Insurance—Goals, Technics, and Limits [PDF]

open access: yes, 1950
A lateral boundary treatment using summation-by-parts operators and simultaneous approximation terms is introduced. The method, that we refer to as the multiple penalty technique, is similar to Davies relaxation and have similar areas of application. The
Frenander, Hannes, Nordström, Jan
core   +1 more source

Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resolving Malpractice Disputes: Imaging the Jury’s Shadow [PDF]

open access: yes, 1991
The ability of juries to resolve malpractice suits was studied. Results showed that most of the time, jury outcomes represent a fair resolution of the claim, but the risk that the result will not be fair is real and ...
Bergman, Kristoffer, Ekström, Jonatan
core   +1 more source

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