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Table of Contents: Volume 14/15 1997 Number 1 Estimating Fatalities Induced by the Economic Costs of Regulations ... Ralph L. Keeney The Interaction Between the Demands for Insurance and Insurable Assets Louis Eeckhoudt, Jack Meyer and Michael B. Ormiston Reasons for Rank-Dependent Utility Evaluation . E/ke U. Weber and Britt Kirsner Fragile Redistribution Choices Behind a Veil of Ignorance . Ed Bukszar and Jack L. Knetsch An Experimental Test of a General Class of Utility Models: Evidence for Context Dependency Richard A. Chechile and Alan D. J. Cooke Number 2 Increasing Risk: Some Direct Constructions............./ Mark J. Machina and John W. Pratt Proof by Certainty Equivalents that Diversification-Across-Time Does Worse, Risk Corrected, Than Diversification-Throughout-Time Paul A. Samuelson On the Inefficiency of Bang-Bang and Stop-Loss Portfolio Strategies.......... Christian Gollier The Impact of Incentives Upon Risky Choice Experiments .... Jane Beattie and Graham Loomes Optimal Incentive Contracting with Ex Ante and Ex Post Moral Hazards: Theory and Evidence Robert Puelz and Arthur Snow Dynamically Consistent Preferences with Quadratic Beliefs. . Jiirgen Eichberger and Simon Grant Number 3 Measures of Mortality Risks .... W Kip Viscusi, Jahn K. Hakes, and Alan Carlin Explaining the “Identifiable Victim Effect” Karen E. Jenni and George Loewenstein Bad Deaths Cass R. Sunstein Insensitivity to the Value of Human Life: A Study of Psychological Numbing David Fetherstonhaugh, Paul Slovic, Steven Johnson, and James Friedrich Confusion of Relative and Absolute Risk in Vatuation Jonathan Baron Number 1 Probabilistic Insurance .... Peter P Wakker, Richard H. Thaler and Amos Tversky Discriminating Between Preference Functionals: A Monte Carlo Study Enrica Carbone Availability Crises in Insurance Markets: Optimal Contracts with Asymmetric Information and Capacity Constraints ................... Neil A. Doherty and Lisa Lipowski Posey Genetic Risk Factors and Offsetting Behavior: The Case of Skin Cancer SRergvehales eons Mente. dts Waa nS Sus clano h Maem areas eaten ans Mark Dickie and Shelby Gerking Number 2 Editor’s Introduction W. Kip Viscusi Characterizing QALYs by Risk Neutrality .... Han Bleichrodt, Peter Wakker and Magnus Johannesson Individual’s Estimates of the Risk of Death: Part I - A Reassessment of the Previous Evidence Daniel K. Benjamin and William R. Dougan Mortality Risk Perceptions: A Bayesian Reassessment Jahn K. Hakes and W. Kip Viscusi Characterizing QALYs Under a General Risk Dependent Utility Model Han Bleichrodt and John Quiggin Saving Lives in the Present Versus Saving Lives in the Future - Is There a PRAMMBOSEMOCCE? biaccc -scui)scaec si 0d Magnus Johannesson and Per-Olov Johansson Number 3 How Best to Flip-Flop if You Must: Integer Dynamic Stochastic Programming for Either-Or Paul A. Samuelson Estimating Probabilities Relevant to Calculating Relative Risk-Corrected Returns CE FS PIE 5 aos heise ees exes daved cade vede Paul A. Samuelson Adverse Selection, Bequests, Crowding Out, and Private Demand for Insurance: Evidence from the Long-term Care Insurance Market Frank A. Sloan and Edward C. Norton On the Value of Changes in Life Expectancy: Blips versus Parametric Changes Sprccadesieed ok Magnus Johannesson, Per-Olov Johansson, and Karl-Gustaf Lofgren The Role of Social Distrust in Risk-Benefit Analysis: A Study of the Siting of a Hazardous Waste Disposal Facility Peter A. Groothuis and Gail Miller Workers’ Compensation Costs When Maximum Benefits Change Richard J. Butler, B. Delworth Gardner and Harold H. Gardner