Standard Fire Insurance Policy

A developmental insurance policy

Why does a totipotent state linger within the inner cell mass of mouse embryos?

Predicting Wildland Fire Policy Support

Theoretically grounded empirical models can improve our understanding of public support for (or opposition to) wildland fire policies. Based on the specificity principle (general to specific versus specific to specific variable associations), we empirically examined the influence of three sets causal influences (general socio-demographics, general situational indicators, specific psychological ...

Policy Options for Health Insurance and Long-term Care Insurance

Economic Principles of Wildland Fire Management Policy

Evolving wildfire management policies are aimed at more comprehensive treatments of current wildland fire management problems. Key policies are identified that affect wildfire and fuels management. Policies are discussed in the context of institutional factors such as interagency cooperation and the growing number of regulations and laws. Key economic principles, such as the Coase Theorem, are ...

Duration Dependent Unemployment Insurance and Stabilisation Policy

In the context of a standard equilibrium matching framework, this paper shows how a duration dependent unemployment insurance (UI) system stabilises unemployment levels over the business cycle. It establishes that reentitlement effects induced by a finite duration UI program generate intertemporal tranfers from firms that hire in future booms to firms that hire in current recessions. These tran...