Automobile Insurance: Road Safety, New Drivers, Risks, Insurance Fraud and Regulation (Huebner International Series on Risk, Insurance and Economic Security)

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Motor vehicle accidents are still a leading cause of death, even if the trend has somewhat declined over the past 20 years. Indeed, motor vehicle accidents are a significant cause of death in comparison with air and space transport accidents, homicides and even HIV infections, causes which are more often highlighted in the media. As shown in this book, motor vehicle accidents are particularly damaging to very young drivers.
The assessment of driving risks is a common concern for road transportation safety and the automobile insurance industry. In both cases, there is an awareness of the great losses resulting from the deaths, injuries and property damage caused by traffic accidents. Research is essential to counteract this public health threat, to assess the success or failure of countermeasures, and to solve the problems it generates in the insurance industry.
This book is for people concerned about road crashes (prevention and compensation) and about the insurance problems they pose - namely private and public institutional authorities, consultants, administrators, practitioners, and researchers interested in sharing the authors' experience in this domain. The book presents original contributions related to motor vehicle insurance and road safety. All papers have been evaluated by external referees. Four subjects are covered: 1) Automobile Insurance Pricing, Risks and Asymmetric Information; 2) Insurance Fraud; 3) Young Drivers: Licensing Policies, Evaluation and Risks; and 4) Road Insurance Regulation.

Automobile Insurance: Road Safety, New Drivers, Risks, Insurance Fraud and Regulation. (Book Reviews).(Book Review) (book review): An article from: Journal of Risk and Insurance

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Automobile Insurance: Road Safety, New Drivers, Risks, Insurance Fraud and Regulation. (Book Reviews).(Book Review) (book review): An article from: Journal of Risk and Insurance
Richard A. Derrig
Manufacturer: American Risk and Insurance Association, Inc.
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Risk and Insurance, published by American Risk and Insurance Association, Inc. on March 1, 2002. The length of the article is 422 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Automobile Insurance: Road Safety, New Drivers, Risks, Insurance Fraud and Regulation. (Book Reviews).(Book Review) (book review)
Author: Richard A. Derrig
Publication: Journal of Risk and Insurance (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2002
Publisher: American Risk and Insurance Association, Inc.
Volume: 69 Issue: 1 Page: 113(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Automobile Insurance: Road Safety, New Drivers, Risks, Insurance Fraud and Regulation

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Automobile Insurance: Road Safety, New Drivers, Risks, Insurance Fraud and Regulation
Georges Dionne
Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
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Binding: Hardcover

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Now, for the first time, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is releasing a companion volume to the Budget of the United States specifically devoted to presenting the results of the evaluations used to determine the allocation of funds among federal agencies.

In preparing for the FY 2004 Budget, the OMB put approximately 20 percent of all federal programs through a formal effectiveness evaluation. The surveys used for these evaluations were completely revised to ensure that the ratings would be more consistent, objective, credible, and transparent than they were in years past.

The results of these evaluations are important not only in how they determined funding for federal agencies, but in their use as a diagnosis of how programs can be improved throughout the next fiscal year.

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An original, comprehensive and multidiscipline analysis of the impact of New Public Management in the UK. Leading authorities from around the world present evaluations of current thinking and highlight the challenges for the future.

The Future Of State-owned Financial Institutions (World Bank/IMF/Brookings Emerging Market)

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The challenges of these enterprises and their continued relevance and existence

The Future Of State-owned Financial Institutions (World Bank/IMF/Brookings Emerging Market)

Manufacturer: Brookings Institution Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Research suggests that if the majority of a country's financial institutions are owned by the state, that country will experience slower financial development, less efficient financial systems, less private sector credit, and slower GDP growth. Yet more than 40 percent of the world's population live in countries in which public sector institutions dominate the banking system. In this volume, noted experts discuss the challenges presented by state-owned financial institutions and offer cross-disciplinary solutions for policymakers and banking regulators. Included are case studies exploring varying methods of privatization, such as initial public offerings, employee stock ownership plans, and strategic investors.

The Future of State-Owned Financial Institutions is a product of the sixth annual Financial Markets and Development conference organized by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Brookings Institution.

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The challenges of these enterprises and their continued relevance and existence.......2005-07-05

Publicly-owned banks and other commercial establishments serve a large number of countries -but these countries suffer from slower economic development and less private sector credit. Experts in The Future Of State-owned Financial Institutions analyze the challenges of these enterprises and their continued relevance and existence, evaluating their performance, value, and methods of privatization.

Building Public Trust: The Future of Corporate Reporting

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Hollow advice from a company that betrays its own employees
Hollow advice from a company that betrays its own employees
What Exquisite Timing
Accounting 101
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Building Public Trust: The Future of Corporate Reporting
Aswath G. Damodaran , and Samuel A., Jr. DiPiazza
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
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Binding: Hardcover

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Building Public Trust, by Samuel A. DiPiazza Jr. and Robert G. Eccles, couldn't be more timely or necessary. Arriving in the wake of a seemingly endless stream of corporate accounting scandals--which in a matter of months have bankrupted Enron and brought WorldCom and Global Crossing down to earth--this book offers a bona fide framework for a new, open form of transparent financial reporting that should prove more palatable to businesses and their stakeholders, and more effective than any of those in misuse today. DiPiazza, CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Eccles, president of Advisory Capital Partners, certainly know of which they speak, and they lay out a highly informed and quite feasible system that actively involves every member of the so-called corporate reporting supply chain: executives, boards of directors, independent auditors, information distributors, third-party analysts, investors, and various other stakeholders. They propose specific ways to develop three key elements (a spirit of transparency, a culture of accountability, and people of integrity) that work together to "create public trust in markets." Based on their extensive firsthand experiences, they further show how using these principles can lead to a scenario where "capital is being allocated more efficiently all over the world." The timeliness of this book is one thing, the content within its pages another, and on both counts Building Public Trust definitely delivers. --Howard Rothman

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Business reporting in a post-apocalypse global marketplace
Clearly, now is the time for creating an effective business-reporting model appropriate for the markets of the twenty-first century. Rather than start from scratch after the Enron-Andersen fiasco, two leading consultants from PricewaterhouseCoopers present a plan that supplements the current model, one in which executives, accountants, analysts, investors, regulators, and other stakeholders can truly embrace the spirit of transparency. The Future of Corporate Reporting highlights the best practices for global financial reporting, explaining the concept of "performance auditing," which focuses on the real performance of the business as opposed to technical adherence to GAAS. Eccles and Masterson also discuss the pros and cons of GAAP v. IAS, present new approaches to reforming financial reporting, and outline a twenty-first-century model of accounting that will improve markets and benefit shareholders.

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Hollow advice from a company that betrays its own employees.......2002-09-29

There is a bitter irony to the heads of PriceWaterhouseCoopers issuing a publication about inspiring trust in the public in large corporations in the wake of Enron and Worldcom scandals when PwC constantly undermines the trust of its own employees. With an infrastructure that makes it nearly impossible for employees to find their own project work and employment practices that left thousands of employees without a job and insufficient experience to get another one (while still continuing to hire new employees), PwC does a horrible job of taking care of those who work for them. In addition, they are just another example of a company that engages in the same shady, conflict-of-interest business practices as Arthur Andersen, yet they just have not been caught yet. Yet, here they are, trying to issue some sort of definitive work about restoring public trust. If a company like this shows no understanding of how to take care of their own employees, how can one even remotely think that they have any business providing a framework of how to take care of the public.

Hollow advice from a company that betrays its own employees.......2002-09-29

There is a bitter irony to the heads of PriceWaterhouseCoopers issuing a publication about inspiring trust in the public in large corporations in the wake of Enron and Worldcom scandals when PwC constantly undermines the trust of its own employees. With an infrastructure that makes it nearly impossible for employees to find their own project work and employment practices that left thousands of employees without a job and insufficient experience to get another one (while still continuing to hire new employees), PwC does a horrible job on taking care of those who work for them. In addition, they are just another example of a company that engages in the same shady, conflict-of-interest business practices as Arthur Andersen, yet they just have not been caught yet. Yet, here they are, trying to issue some sort of definitive work about restoring public trust. If a company like this shows no understanding of how to take care of their own employees, how can one even remotely think that they have any business providing a framework of how to take care of the public.

What Exquisite Timing.......2002-08-22

Kudos to the authors and their editorial team for managing to publish this quickly enough to become part of the debate. With luck, some of what the authors have to say may even become part of the solution.

Accounting 101.......2002-08-06

In the current marketplace, its refreshing to see men of stature like Sam DiPiazza and Robert Eccles taking a step in the right direction. If you are an investor, if you have money in public companies, this is a book you must read!

Timely and Thoughtful.......2002-08-03

A very timely and thoughtful work. It's quite easy to criticize our current system of financial reporting both in terms of stakeholder value and human consequences. The nightly business journals do their part by documenting the day's dismal financial calamities. Mr. Eccles takes the next step by offering concrete proposals for building an infrastructure to improve corporate transparency and investor confidence. We hope that all members of the Corporate Reporting Supply Chain will accept this work as a starting point for on-going discussions of this important topic.

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A Future for Public Ownership
Malcolm Sawyer , and Kathy O'Donnel
Manufacturer: Lawrence & Wishart
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Binding: Paperback

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New Life at Ground Zero: New York, Home Ownership, and the Future of American Cities

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New Life at Ground Zero: New York, Home Ownership, and the Future of American Cities
Charles J. Orlebeke
Manufacturer: Rockefeller Institute Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0914341529

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Not long ago, the South Bronx and other devastated New York City neighborhoods had become legendary as the worst urban war zones, so infamous that busloads of foreign tourists would ask to be taken there to snap pictures of the rubble. What's more, the city's treasury was empty, and the federal government under Ronald Reagan was pulling back from its commitment to confront the nation's "urban crisis." In New Life at Ground Zero, Charles J. Orlebeke traces New York City's dramatic comeback in the '80s and '90s, focusing on one organization, the New York City Housing Partnership, which helped spark the recovery by building thousands of new homes for the ownership market in the South Bronx and throughout the city. As Orlebeke vividly recounts, this high stakes gamble was pulled off by a diverse cast of characters—sometimes working cooperatively, more often at odds in the nation's most complex and contentious political environment. Behind the facade of "public-private partnership" presented by retired banker and civic leader David Rockefeller and popular mayor Ed Koch in 1982, lay minefields of conflicting interests, bureaucratic roadblocks, and clashing personalities.

New Life at Ground Zero sets the stage for the emergence of the Housing Partnership with account of colliding views about how New York City should develop after World War II, whether as a gleaming "city of the future," or as the messier, human-scale city of neighborhoods envisioned by Jane Jacobs. Both views seemed irrelevant in the mid-'70s, as New York City plunged into near bankruptcy. From this civic ordeal would emerge the Housing Partnership, a business-led nonprofit developer that would combine large-scale rebuilding with relatively low-density neighborhoods of resident owners.

In telling the Housing Partnership story, Orlebeke draws on a careful analysis of internal documents and communications and on interviews with key partners, including city officials, Partnership staff, community activists, business leaders, homebuilders, and buyers. Still flourishing today, the Partnership has branched out into rebuilding abandoned rental buildings with neighborhood entrepreneurs, and is also sponsoring the development of new retail stores in places once written off as hopeless. As such, it stands out as a useful model of community revival for other cities to study and adapt to their own local circumstances.

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This comparative study is the first to center on the key issues of homeownership and control today in a number of industrialized countries. Experts from Canada, Great Britain, Russia, and the United States draw a cross-national and interdisciplinary, informed picture of basic issues and values, current trends, and different policy approaches that have been tested in recent years. This overview of various national policies and programs is intended for students and scholars, policymakers and public administrators dealing with fundamental problems in homeownership and control. Ownership and control has long been a central theme in the heated public debates in different countries over housing policy. How are notions about ownership and control tied to culture? What are some of the basic values about homeownership in western societies? What place has homeownership played in the life cycles of black and white families in the United States? What limitations to privatization exist in housing reform in Russia now? Who benefits or loses from public housing sales in Britain? How are multi-family public housing projects of the 1960s in the United States being converted to community-corporation control? What different kinds of tenant attitudes exist toward tenant management in two U.S. public housing developments? What type of role do nonprofit housing cooperatives in Canada play? These are only some of the questions that the ten chapters set out to answer. Reference lists accompany each of the chapters, adding to the usefulness of this public policy study for text purposes.

Public Communication - The New Imperatives: Future Directions for Media Research (SAGE Communications in Society series)

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Public Communication - The New Imperatives: Future Directions for Media Research (SAGE Communications in Society series)

Manufacturer: Sage Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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How have new technologies, regulatory policies, and changes in ownership affected today's media? This is the central question explored in Public Communication. An outstanding team of contributors addresses the current transformation of media systems and examines the impact of new ownership and regulatory structures, policies, and technologies. The growth of official information management, the unequal distribution of communication resources, and the implications of these trends on democratic processes are thoroughly analyzed. In addition, contributors probe various conceptual and methodological issues, including a reappraisal of the culturalist paradigm and the neglected significance of journalistic sources. Public Communication, the New Imperatives provides scholars and students with a well-rounded overview of the field and offers a set of new research imperatives for the coming decade. "This is a good book and should be read by those who wish to orientate themselves to important currents in British studies or to reflect on a number of conventional wisdoms which are subjected to critical and productive scrutiny. For this book does more than map the field; it gives directions for future research. . . .[The essays] display an impressive maturity of scholarship [and] are informed by their authors' familiarity with earlier work in the field. . . ." --Prometheus "A particularly interesting and challenging work. . . . A very good collection indeed." --Media Information Australia "This is an important collection of very readable papers for it addresses the changing situation which the broadcasting industry faces today." --Television: Journal of the Royal Television Society "Tremendous breadth. . . . This book makes an important contribution to the future direction of research in our discipline. . . . The collection clearly articulates areas of change and the implications for future research and policy on an international level." --Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media "A collection of rousing essays which should lead to new media research work. Among other things, they serve to legitimize nontraditional 'effects' sorts of research." --Communication Quarterly "This is a useful 'snapshot' of the research situation present and projected as seen within a UK context." --Communication Booknotes

A way out? How newspapers might escape Wall Street and redeem their future.(public ownership of newspapers)(Cover Story) : An article from: Columbia Journalism Review

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A way out? How newspapers might escape Wall Street and redeem their future.(public ownership of newspapers)(Cover Story) : An article from: Columbia Journalism Review
Douglas McCollam
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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This digital document is an article from Columbia Journalism Review, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2006. The length of the article is 2450 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: A way out? How newspapers might escape Wall Street and redeem their future.(public ownership of newspapers)(Cover Story)
Author: Douglas McCollam
Publication: Columbia Journalism Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 44 Issue: 5 Page: 18(4)

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Why Not Nationalise? A Contribution to the discussion of Labour's statement on the future of Public Ownership.

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Why Not Nationalise? A Contribution to the discussion of Labour's statement on the future of Public Ownership.
John Gollan
Manufacturer: Communist Party 1957.
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B0000CJRLT

Blackout? : media ownership concentration and the future of black radio: Impacts of the Telecommunications Act of 1996

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Blackout? : media ownership concentration and the future of black radio: Impacts of the Telecommunications Act of 1996
Kofi Asiedu Ofori
Manufacturer: Medgar Evers College, Dubois Bunche Center
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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