Incomplete Justice: The Costs of Partial Indemnity

Measuring the Costs and Benefits of Crime and Justice

Cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost analyses are tools that have been used by public policy analysts for years. Programs as diverse as environmental and land use regulations, welfare benefits, job training programs, and immunization policies have all been analyzed in this manner. Since the early 1980s, Federal regulatory agencies have been required to conduct benefit-cost analyses on major regu...

Measuring Transaction Costs: An Incomplete Survey

This survey sketches the broad landscape of the field of transaction costs measurement. It surveys the main research areas concerning transaction costs and offers a taxonomy: monetary and financial economics, Williamsonian transaction cost economics, the transaction sector, non-market transaction costs, environmental and ecological economics, institutions and economic growth, and the economics ...

Withering on the vine: the decline of indemnity health insurance.

Recovering Vote Choice from Partial Incomplete Data

In voting rights cases, judges often infer unobservable individual vote choices from election data aggregated at the precinct level. That is, one must solve an ill-posed inverse problem to obtain the critical information used in these cases. The ill-posed nature of the problem means that traditional frequentist and Bayesian approaches cannot be employed without first imposing a range of assumpt...

Partial Plan Recognition with Incomplete Information

This work explores the benefits of using user models for plan recognition problems in a real-world application. Selfinterested agents are designed for the prediction of resource usage in the UNIX domain using a stochastic approach to automatically acquire regularities of user behavior. Both sequential information from the command sequence and relational information such as system’s responses an...