Description: This page presents the Table of Contents to the Price, Waterhouse study. From Study of Public Financial Guarantee Programs, M-FI96-2.

Description: Chapter 2 of the Price, Waterhouse study describes the sources, collection methods, and classification of the accumulated data. From Study of Public Financial Guarantee Programs, M-FI96-1.

Description: Chapter 5 of the Price, Waterhouse study presents an extensive collection of tables attempting to capture the size, risk, age, and objectives of the examined programs in an understandable, comparative format. From Study of Public Financial Guarantee Programs, M-FI96-2.

Description: Accurate determination of the appropriate time to retire and replace a physical asset is important for large ensembles of such assets when taken as a whole, and concerns the fate of tens of trillions of dollars in assets, such as airplane engines, vehicles, or any other kind of physical asset susceptible to obsolescence. A decision model to accomplish this is derived using the concept of actuarial present value applied to an economic theory of cost minimization. Since this is a theory coupling investor wealth creation with the long-term optimization of the use of scarce resources, it can also be offered as an economic model relevant to sustainability.

Description: Diabetes mellitus type 2 is an excellent model for assessing the setup of medical coverage in the U.S. health care system. It is a chronic disease that has genetic, behavioral and other medical causes, and causes many complications over the long term. From Financing Chronic Care Monograph, M-HB05-1.

Description: The essay discusses the appropriate role of insurance companies, efficient and economical ways to care for chronic illnesses and having a maximum price society will pay to support the ongoing life of any one individual.

Description: Chapter 4 of the Price, Waterhouse study presents and extensive collection of numerical tables. From Study of Public Financial Guarantee Programs, M-FI96-2.

Description: Chapter 3 of the Price, Waterhouse study contains an extensive collection of descriptive tables. From Study of Public Financial Guarantee Programs, M-FI96-2.

Description: Chapter 6 presents a listing of sources used in the Price, Waterhouse study. From Study of Public Financial Guarantee Programs, M-FI96-2.

Description: Foreword to monograph presenting results of a Price, Waterhouse study on behalf of SOA. From Study of Public Financial Guarantee Programs, M-FI96-2.