Advances in Health and Disease. Volume 2

This book presents and discusses various economic and financial issues with a particular focus on how these issues and policies directly affect consumers. Topics discussed include the affect of audit risk on credit risk; responsibility in the new age of health care; profitability determinants; selection of risk factors in automobile insurance; sticky credit spreads, macroeconomic activity and equity market volatility; consumer search with uninformed buyers and imperfect recall and the role of money-growth targeting.