) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …

that parimutuel insurance intrinsically leads to participants being underinsured due to basis risk. Although participants … will be underinsured, parimutuel insurance guarantees no underlying risk borne by the issuer. We also derive the equivalent … transaction costs of traditional insurance relative to HuRLOs. The actual transaction cost for traditional insurance is found to …

biogeophysical limits of the Earth system by drawing on aspects of insurance systems including forms of social insurance and the … insurance industry. Our proposal achieves this by: (i) creating a financial liability link between current emissions and … approaches to pricing CO2e emissions, has aspects that are consistent with existing forms of insurance. It requires participation …

Recent academic discussion regarding crop insurance in developing and transition countries has focused on weather index … insurance. But empirical analyses of such schemes based on farm level data cannot be found in the literature, though this … insurance type shows clear advantages compared to multiple-peril crop insurance and revenue insurance. Recent empirical …

A wide variety of insurance products is available to agricultural producers to insure against yield or price risks in … over the last decade. This paper outlines the development of an insurance product aimed at corn producers who are members …

This study analyzed the effects that the use of crop insurance products and marketing alternatives had on the gross … revenue per acre for an individual farm in Cass County. Crop insurance products and marketing strategies were analyzed … synergies. A whole farm scenario analysis was run that included integrated strategies that implemented the same insurance …