"This book examines the growing role and importance of 'Protection Gap Entities' (PGEs), not-for-profit entities providing insurance protection that would otherwise be unavailable within a purely private sector context. Around the world, PGEs and the insurance instruments they use are becoming...

This study investigates whether and how minimum wage policies affect manufacturing firms’ environmental behaviors, an important issue remains undiscovered in previous research. In this paper, we provide one of the first pieces of evidence about how firm’s factor structure affects its...

1. Emergency Management’s Journey with Technology -- 2. Deploying Modern Technology for Disaster Management Practitioners -- 3. Technology and information management supporting resilience in health care and rescue systems -- 4. A System for Collaboration and Information Sharing in Disaster...

This book provides guidelines for emergency managers, responders, and health care professionals to establish a mass casualty/mass fatality (MC/MF) management plan. It identifies a need for a stronger and more global management structure for MC/MF events that includes standardized practices of...

This paper investigates how corporate insiders respond to the initial COVID-19 outbreaks. Using comprehensive insider transaction data from 25 countries, we document a consistent pattern of insider selling during the month after the first COVID-19 case is confirmed in a given country. Insider...

This paper investigates how corporate insiders respond to the initial COVID-19 outbreaks. Using comprehensive insider transaction data from 25 countries, we document a consistent pattern of insider selling during the month after the first COVID-19 case is confirmed in a given country. Insider...