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Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002

The terms of reference for this inquiry ask the Commission to assess whether price regulation of airport services is required at privatised airports and, if so, in what form this should take. The Commission's inquiry focusses on the core-regulated airports, including Sydney Airport. The...

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When prices hardly matter: Incomplete insurance contracts and markets for repair goods

Nell, Martin; Richter, Andreas; Schiller, Jörg - EconWPA - 2005

purchases a good to compensate consequences of unfavorable events, such as an accident or an illness. Insurance policies in most … lines of insurance base indemnity on the insured’s actual expenses, i.e., the insured would be partially or completely … reimbursed when purchasing certain goods. In this setting we discuss the interaction between insurance and repair markets by …

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Gains and losses: the same or different choices? A “non-ideal” economics approach.

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

Ideal economics? A “non-ideal” economics approach has been proposed, which considers the possibility of arrangement infringements. It gives promises for both solving fundamental problems of economic theory and creation of new directions and fields of research. The approach application in...

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Arrangement Infringement Possibility Approach: Some Economic Features of Large-Scale Events

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2004

and objectives for the first stages of insurance data analysis have been sketched out. Scale hypotheses, insurance and …

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Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Voting

Pollak, Andreas - EconWPA - 2005

insurance (UI) scheme and the voting behaviour on unemployment policy reforms. In a first step, the optimal defined benefit and …

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Equity Allocation and Portfolio Selection in Insurance: A simplified Portfolio Model

Taflin, Erik - EconWPA - 1999

A quadratic discrete time probabilistic model, for optimal portfolio selection in (re-)insurance is studied. For …

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Private Crop Insurers and the Reinsurance Fund Allocation Decision

Coble, Keith; Dismukes, Robert; Glauber, Joseph - EconWPA - 2005

This research investigates the strategic behavior of private crop insurance firms reinsured by the USDA through the …

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Pay per mile insurance

Zahid, Dr. Fayyaz - EconWPA - 2005

High insurance cost is one of the serious financial problems that today’s drivers are facing. It appears to be that in … the current time based insurance system the insurance companies are charging premiums for the risk of driving while the … vehicles are parked. Independent surveys and interviews of the insurance customers were conducted. The literature and available …

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Vote Splitting as Insurance Against Uncertainty

Bugarin, Mauricio - EconWPA - 1998

The present paper offers a racional choice explanation for political ticket splitting. It considers a game-theoretic model of voting and bargaining within Congress and between Congress and the president. When parties are ideologically oriented and voters' utilities are state dependent, the model...

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Workers Compensation and Occupational Health and Safety Frameworks

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

The final report of the public inquiry, National Workers' Compensation and Occupational Health and Safety Frameworks. Consistent with its terms of reference, the Commission had recommended a national workers’ compensation scheme to operate alongside those of the States and Territories to...

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