Proposal: Treat profits and losses symmetrically so that the taxing authority shares in losses in the same proportion as it shares in profits. Just as companies making profits pay a share of those profits in taxes, companies make losses would receive a subsidy or negative tax from the government...

Given the importance of recall to previous employer in the United States, I provide both theoretical and empirical analyses of an asymmetric information model with an endogenous layoff-rehire process. I show that taking into account the possibility of recalls has important implications for the...

The Diagnostic Care Group (DCG) model is applied to data from the Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission from fiscal years 1994-1995 and used to assess the extent of biased selection between one fee-for-service (FFS) plan, one preferred provider organization, and several health maintenance...