Lawyer's Lawyer: The Life of John W. Davis

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...

John W

We use a unique firm-level panel data set of multinational parents and their foreign affiliates to analyze whether profits are shared across borders within multinational firms. Using both fixed-effects and generalized method-of-moments estimators, affiliate wage levels are estimated to respond to both affiliate and parent profitability. The elasticity of affiliate wages to parent profits per wo...

John Clavell, 1601–43: highwayman, author, lawyer, doctor

problems, his achievements and his failures, as he appeared to contemporaries, pupils and successors, as well as to those who are the heirs of a tradition to which he contributed. I recall, dimly, reading a remark of Kipling's, that a teacher is at the mercy of his disciples. It was well said. In this instance the disciples are shown to have been worthy. They had their own successes and failure...

john steinbeck: friend of the american common man

in his last years of life americans had almost forgotton steinbeck, and those who had not, occasionally criticized him for supporting and praising the u. s. military intervention in the vietnam war. althought ateinbeck incorporates different themes into his works, each one bears many signs of his concern and sympathy for america and the american common people in particular. steinbecks to a god ...

John W . Rudnicki