This paper describes a research project that addresses the difficulties in dealing with regulatory documents such as national and regional codes. These documents tend to be voluminous, heavily cross-referenced, possibly ambiguous and even conflicting at times. There are often multiple documents that need to be consulted and satisfied; however it is a difficult task to locate all of the relevant...

Pharmaceutical waste has become an urgent public health and environmental protection issue in recent years, leading to a variety of sometimes-conflicting federal and state legislation and regulations that health care entities must take seriously.

We analyze the optimal coverage level for an unreliable insurance contract if a utility-maximizing policyholder can transfer intrinsic nonperformance risk to several co-insurers. Our discussion starts with demand model under default and introduction of multiple risk-sharing instrument called co-insurance policy. Subsequently, we examine interrelation between recovery rate level, utility policyh...

Disarmament has had its ups and downs, to say the least. If Dr. Johnson were with us tonight, he might quip that its persistence marks a triumph of hope over experience. Progress in this field is often slow and incremental. Sometimes it is ambiguous or subject to conflicting interpretations. Sometimes it is hard to assign credit to individuals or specific policies when progress is made, or to a...