Governmental Indemnity

Animal disease incidence and indemnity eradication programs

There are many options for controlling the spread of animal diseases. Some diseases have been treated as public sector problems and many nations have tried to control disease spread by purchasing sick animals from farmers. Government agencies have purchased breeding stock that might transmit diseases. Government agencies have purchased animals that might otherwise have gone to the slaughterhous...

Withering on the vine: the decline of indemnity health insurance.

Designing a Governmental Backbone

The presentation is about the design of the backbone of the Estonian governmental information systems X-Road. The system is already ten years old and has proven to be useful and reliable. The presentation describes the vision of the system, the requirements analysis process and the technical design decisions. The vision was to create a web-services based unified access to all governmental regis...

Governmental Quality and Welfare

In the last decade, caseloads in AFDC/TANF have shifted dramatically up, then down. Existing studies fail to explain the changes well. Also, they do not reveal the policies behind the changes, nor the important role of governmental quality in shaping welfare reform. In this study, I use cross-sectional models based on states, measure welfare reform policies directly using program data, and rela...

Transfer Problem Dynamics: Macroeconomics of the Franco-Prussian War Indemnity

We study the classic transfer problem of predicting the effects of an international transfer on the terms of trade and the current account. A two-countrymodel with debt and capital allows for realistic features of historical transfers: they follow wartime increases in government spending and are financed partly by borrowing. The model is applied to the largest historical transfer, the Franco-Pr...