Since 2000, Russia has witnessed a stunning increase in xenophobic voting and violence. Unlike manifestations in Western Europe, Russian xenophobia is significantly more likely to end in fatal encounters or large-scale infringements of domestic liberties. Russia is home to half the world's...

The basic formula for adjusting a child support award to account for visitation or shared parenting is relatively simple. The form of the equation does not depend upon one's views with regard to whether the adjustment should be made directly in relation to time children spend with each parent...

Child support formulae used in all states provide a rigid mathematical approach for calculating awards. But, do these formulae provide a hidden margin of spousal maintenance? A new equation for distinguishing between child support and spousal maintenance is presented in this paper. Analysis...

US federal welfare reform of the 1980s removed decisions on the amount of child support ordered from their common law foundation. Ostensibly for the purposes of consistency in the amounts ordered and reducing welfare dependency in single parent households, mandatory guidelines were established....

Rapid growth in heavy-tailed claim severity in commercial liability insurance requires insurer response by way of flexible mechanisms to update premiums. To this end in this paper a new premium principle is established for heavy-tailed claims, and its properties investigated. Risk-neutral...

When insurance claims are governed by fat-tailed distributions, gross uncertainty about the value of the tail-fatness index is virtually inescapable. In this paper a new premium principle (the power principle) analogous to the exponential principle for thin-tailed claims, is discussed. Pareto...