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- Insurance, Self-Protection, and the Economics of Terrorism
- This paper investigates the rationale for public intervention in the terrorism insurance market. It argues that government subsidies for terror insurance are aimed, in part, at discouraging self-protection and limiting the negative externalities associated with self-protection. The paper provides a thought that these externalities are essential for normative analysis of...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- Insuring the Uninsurable: Private Insurance Markets and Government Intervention in Cases of Extreme Risk
- Most property/casualty insurance is provided without intervention or participation by the federal or state governments other than state regulation. For some risks, however, insurance markets are unable to provide sufficient coverage to meet society's needs. These risks - commonly called extreme or catastrophic risks - are uninsurable through conventional insurance...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Managing Terrorism Risk Requires Federal Financial Role and Broad Industry Participation
- Ordinarily, insurers' ability to provide coverage for insurable risks is enhanced to the extent that government intervention in insurance markets is minimized. For example, when government refrains from using regulation to control prices, restrict underwriting freedom, and mandate coverage, insurers' ability to provide coverage is enhanced. Terrorism risk is not...
- White papers 2006-03-01
- Mr PC Goes to Washington
- When PC Forum, an exclusive shindig for technology bosses, venture capitalists and other digerati, celebrated its 25th anniversary, the motto was "Back to the frontier". But the panels and speeches suggested a different destination. Most debates were about what government should or should not do. The high-tech sector is more...
- White papers 2002-05-30
- Should Governments Support the Private Terrorism Insurance Market?
- This paper begins by revisiting the question of why the private terrorism insurance market fails. Clearly, if terrorism insurance is really an "uninsurable risk", the question of an optimal government alternative needs to be raised. However, if the private market, after a period of temporary stress, is independently viable, a...
- White papers 2005-06-28
- Terrorism and Insurance Markets: A Role for the Government as Insurer?
- Since September 11, 2001, insurance markets have been struggling to adjust to new information about the magnitude of risks posed by terrorism, and to the loss of tens of billions of dollars in reserves because of claims relating to the September 11 attacks. Insurance coverage for terror-related losses has become...
- White papers 2002-07-24
- Development Strategy, Viability, and Economic Institutions
- This paper explores the politically determined development objectives and the intrinsic logic of government intervention policies in east developed countries. It is argued that the distorted institutional structure in China and in many least developed countries, after the Second World War, can be largely explained by government adoption of inappropriate...
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Profile of the European Music Sector
- The European music industry is facing difficult times. World sales of recorded music for 2001 fell by 8.9% in value and by 6.8% in units. Music traditionally has not attracted much attention at political level. The industry has developed along the rules of the free market economy with little or...
- White papers 2002-05-22
- The OEM and Aftermarket for 12 Volt Electronics: Volume II - The U.S. Car Multimedia and Communications Market
- The U.S. car multimedia and communications market will look a lot different in the next three to five years. Present systems, typically found only in high-end vehicles, use multiple stand alone systems or modules. In order to be cost-effective, future systems will incorporate a high level of integration, combining multiple...
- White papers 2000-08-01
- To Meet Wind Power Goals, Government Action Needed
- Research Recap submits: Further government intervention will be required in order to meet the policy goal of supplying 20% of US power needs by 2030, according to a recent analysis by the Congressional Research Service. Although windpower currently provides only about 1% of U.S. electricity needs, it...
- External links 2008-07-01
- Free Trade, Free Markets: Rating The 107th Congress
- Despite all the hype about globalization and the supposed universal triumph of free-market policies, governments around the world, including that of the United States, continue to intervene in the flow of goods, services, people, and capital across international borders. That widespread intervention takes two basic forms: barriers that discourage trade...
- White papers 2003-01-30
- Economics And Antitrust Law And Enforcement
- From the executive summary ‘Antitrust Law is a type of Government intervention in the marketplace, in the form of indirect regulation The primary reason for such policies is to promote and preserve competition in the market system. In other words, the role of antitrust is to make markets competitive. Some...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Hot Money in China
- Michael Pettis submits: I was too busy to post anything Tuesday, but there wasn’t a whole lot new to say except to bemoan the stock market’s performance, again. The SSE Composite dropped 3.1%. Wednesday after a rocky start it seemed to find its legs, trading up 1.8% by lunch,...
- External links 2008-07-03
- Issues and Options for Government Intervention in the Market for Terrorism Insurance
- This paper focuses on insurance, which is only one part of an overall system for managing risks created by the possibility of terrorist attacks and compensating losses caused by terrorist attacks. Disaster assistance, the tort system, and charities can also play a role in this system. This paper should be...
- White papers 2004-10-13
- Sustainable Development: Winning Hearts and Minds in the Energy Industries
- For many senior executives, sustainable development is nothing more than the latest crusade of fringe environmental groups and liberal economists. They believe that granting legitimacy to sustainable development would incur costs while blurring focus on the core business, and would invite further unwanted government intervention. Such a view is shortsighted...
- White papers 2004-09-23
- Volatile Electricity Prices, Government Intervention and Power Generation Investment
- IEA was created in 1974. Its main tasks where Oil emergency stocks and oil markets, Technology development, Energy statistics, Policy Analysis. Power generation investment outlook in IEA electricity markets. Power generation investment and electricity prices. Demand for electricity varies by the minute, hour, day, season. Volatile electricity prices encourage investment...
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- Weekly Market Commentary: June 30th - July 4th
- Matthew Bradbard submits: There is talk of government intervention, banning of institutional investors from commodities, and recently on the CFTC website they released “emergency authority” which has been only used four times in history and not since 1980. The Commission has exercised its emergency powers in response to extreme...
- External links 2008-06-30
- Business Investment: Recent Performance And Some Implications For Policy
- The pattern of investment in most OECD countries in the 1980s was characterised by relatively weak levels of business net investment as a fraction of output. These developments were reflected in flagging capital-output ratios. At the same time, it would appear that more investment would be beneficial for a number...
- White papers 2005-01-13
- The New Agricultural Trade Negotiations: Background and Issues for the U.S. Cotton Sector
- New multilateral trade negotiations under the World Trade Organization WTO were initiated for agriculture in 2000. International trade is particularly important for cotton, since 30 percent of the world's consumption of cotton fiber crosses international borders before consumption by textile mills, and, through trade in yarn, fabric, and clothing, much...
- White papers 2000-11-01
- Viewpoints From Systema: Great Sales Training! Too Bad It Won't Last, And What Does-Sales Science eJournal
- The company must accomplish its mission in an environment pockmarked with competitors, government intervention, global economics, and changing technology. To battle these unconventional enemies of strategic success, Special Forces are needed. There are two squads with which to root out the enemies of profit and productivity; bean-counters and sales. Cost-cutters...
- White papers 2002-08-01
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