BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$3.0B
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At the University of Pennsylvania, you'll find a historic, Ivy League school with highly selective admissions and a history of innovation in interdisciplinary education and scholarship. You'll also find a picturesque campus amidst a dynamic city and a world-class research institution. Today Penn is home to a diverse undergraduate student body of nearly 10,000, hailing from every state in the union and all around the globe. Admissions are among the most selective in the country and Penn consistently ranks among the top 10 universities in the annual U.S. News & World Report survey. Another 10,000 students are enrolled in Penn's 12 graduate and professional schools, which are national leaders in their fields. The Wharton School is consistently one of the nation's top three business schools. The School of Nursing is one of the two best in the U.S. The School of Arts and Sciences, Graduate School of Education, Law School, School of Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, and Annenberg School for Communication all rank among the top 10 schools in their fields.
Number of Employees 20,000
NAICS Code Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools: 611310
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Rules Rather Than Discretion: Lessons From Hurricane Katrina
BNET
- 2006-08-01
This paper explores options for programs to be put in place prior to a disaster to avoid large and often poorly-managed expenditures following a catastrophe and to provide appropriate protection against the risk of those large losses which do occur. The lack of interest in insurance protection and mitigation by...
Has the Time Come for Comprehensive Natural Disaster Insurance?
BNET
- 2005-12-14
This paper examines the role that insurance coupled with mitigation can play in reducing losses from future natural disasters while at the same time providing funds for recovery. After examining the decision processes of three interested parties who will be at the centerpiece of such a program, residents in hazard-prone...
Credit Risk Transfer and Contagion
BNET
- 2005-11-24
Some have argued that recent increases in credit risk transfer are desirable because they improve the diversification of risk. Others have suggested that they may be undesirable if they increase the risk of financial crises. Using a model with banking and insurance sectors, this paper shows that credit risk transfer...
Dimensions of 401(k) Plan Design
BNET
- 2005-11-11
This paper explores why plan sponsors design their 401k plans the way they do. Employing a unique, rich dataset of over five hundred 401k plans, the authors' find that these plans are principally a form of tax-motivated compensation under the restriction of federal non-discrimination rules. In other words, to appeal...
Life Insurance and the Value of Spouses: Labor Supply Vs. Household Production
BNET
- 2005-11-01
To understand women's decision on labor market participation, it is crucial to correctly measure the value of household production as well as earning ability. Researchers have attempted to measure home production and other nonmarket activity by looking at the amount of time devoted to nonmarket production or the amount of...
Switching Costs and Adverse Selection in the Market for Credit Cards: New Evidence
BNET
- 2005-07-01
To explain persistence of credit card interest rates at relatively high levels, Calem and Mester argued that informational barriers create switching costs for high-balance customers. As evidence, using data from the 1989 Survey of Consumer Finances, they showed that these households were more likely to be rejected when applying for...
Capital Gains Taxes, Pricing Spreads and Arbitrage: Evidence From U.S. Cross-Listed Firms
BNET
- 2005-06-30
This paper examines how personal taxes affect the pricing of stocks that are simultaneously listed and traded on multiple exchanges around the globe. Specifically, the paper studies how an unexpected reduction in U.S. capital gains taxes at the announcement of the 1997 budget accord changes the pricing of foreign firms'...
Better Plans for the Better-Paid: Determinants and Effects of 401(k) Plan Design
BNET
- 2005-04-06
This paper seeks to understand why plan sponsors design their 401k plans the way they do. Drawing on a rich dataset of several hundred 401k plans, the paper finds support for the argument that these plans are principally a form of tax-motivated compensation. In other words, to appeal to better-paid...
TRIA and Beyond: What Would Be the Most Effective Way for the Nation to Recover From (Mega)-Terrorist Attacks?
BNET
- 2005-02-25
Estimating the risk of a terrorist attack is problematic because of limited historical data, divergent models, and differing expert judgments on the likelihood and impact of an attack. Therefore, professionals seeking to manage the risk are further challenged by uncertainty over whether to buy insurance, by how to conduct appropriate...
Thinking About Tax
BNET
- 2005-02-21
This paper reports the findings of original experiments about perceptions of various aspects of tax-law design. In evaluating public finance systems, people are vulnerable to a wide range of heuristics and biases, leading to inconsistent judgment and evaluation. These errors in judgment are specific instances of a more general isolation...
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