How to achieve an ROI on your health care dollars

Offering employees self-care information, which encourages them to decide what to do for themselves with and without provider assistance, can be a low-cost, effective approach to health care cost management. Components of such a program may include a printed self-care guide, workshops, software and a nurse advice line. Self-care is a process, not an event and, to be effective, a self-care program needs to be reinforced by ongoing communication.     

Abatement and Permits when Pollution is Uncertain and Violations are Fined

This paper considers a firm’s choice of abatement and of the number of permits if actual pollution is stochastic such that full compliance cannot be ensured. This straightforward extension induces non-trivial and unexpected comparative static properties, such as: permits and abatement can be either substitutes or complements, higher fines can lower the number of acquired permits (or abatement), and higher permit prices can reduce abatement. Yet integrating these reactions into a (competitive) permit market eliminates puzzling features. This is an additional justification of tradable permits over standards, where regulators must cope with potentially counterproductive firm reactions. A first version of the paper was written at the School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology, Sydney and I am grateful for the enjoyed hospitality. I am also grateful for the valuable comments from an anonymous referee.     

How upside down are political business cycles when there is output persistence

This note shows in what circumstances output persistence may invert the pattern of the political business cycle when inflation expectations are of the adaptive or rational type and the government preferences are quadratic over output and inflation.     

Business, as a health care consumer, is paying heed to the bottom line

It may be spending up to $100 billion a year for health care, and business wants not only to hold down costs but also to forestall the alternative: federal regulation.     

Discuss"when facing the Terrorism,the courts,no less than the elected branches of government,are driven by fear and panic.It is na?ve to expect the courts to protect individual liberty when the much more important of security is at stake."

Introduction:In recent years,the terrorism has been destroying many places of world.No one knows what it is the next terrorism activity and where it will happen.The governments and the army have been guarding any time,because the damage caused by terrorism is very hrse,not only the social economy,hut also the stabilizadon of country,the order of country,civil liberty and the individual life.