We analyze the claims database of a large malpractice insurer covering more than 8,000 physicians and 9,300 claims. Applying empirical Bayes methods in a regression setting, we construct a predictor of each physician's underlying propensity to incur malpractice claims. Our explanatory factors...

Abatement of global climate change is modeled as a two-period game between the industrialized "North" and developing "South." Using an integrated-assessment model to simulate the economic and environmental consequences of alternative abatement policies, cooperative and Nash solutions are...