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The Road Ahead
These proceedings summarize the key themes and issues raised during a symposium on September 24, 2012, hosted by the RAND Center for Corporate Ethics ...
The U.S. Trustee Program (USTP) is the component of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) whose mission includes promoting the integrity and efficiency...
An Analysis of the Relationship Between Case Details and Forfeiture Among TEOAF High-Forfeiture and Major Cases
The Treasury Executive Office for Asset Forfeiture (TEOAF) administers the Treasury Forfeiture Fund (TFF), which receives deposits of nontax forfeitur...
The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 provided new requirements for bankruptcy filers and gave the U.S. Trustee Program ...
Findings and Recommendations from a Synthesis of Research on the Mental Health, Economic, and Community Distress Associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill was the largest in U.S. history, releasing an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico....
This PDF document was made available as a public service of the RAND Corporation. In recent years, the evolution of the financial service industry has...
Policy Issues and Options for Strengthening Valuation and Reducing Risk
Examines the relationship between fair value accounting and historical cost accounting and systemic risk to the financial system, including the role t...
This report explores the extent to which hedge funds create or contribute to systemic risk, the role they played in the financial crisis, and whether ...
Exploring the Future of Corporate Cryptocurrency
Researchers considered a future in which corporate cryptocurrency (crypto), a type of fungible digital token sponsored by multinational corporations, ...
Congress enacted the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) in 2002, in response to terrorism insurance becoming unavailable or, when offered, extremely ...
Property Characteristics, Community Demographics, and Mitigation Strategies
The increased frequency and severity of flooding in the United States are likely to increase the number of properties that experience multiple flood l...
Incorporating Hazard Risk and Social Equity Into Decisionmaking Processes
The federal Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program can help develop community resilience through mitigation activities that ...
Natural disasters have become more frequent and destructive. In 2020, the United States experienced the most billion-dollar disasters ever, with a tot...
Expanding Equity in Federal Emergency Management Agency Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grants
Researchers offer ways the Federal Emergency Management Agency could simplify or amend the required benefit-cost analysis process in applications for ...
An Initial Assessment of Implementation by Federal Agencies
RAND researchers assessed federal agencies' implementation of the Infrastructure Resilience Guidelines, written by the Presidential Hurricane Sandy Re...
Economic Impacts of Rising Premiums and Policy Options for One- to Four-family Homes
This report examines flood insurance cost in New York City and homeowners' ability to afford it. It develops and evaluates several different approache...
Current Practices of State and Local Government and Options for Closing the Insurance Gap
For this report, researchers examined state and local financial risk management practices, the role that the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Pub...
Post-Storm Challenges and Potential Courses of Action
Puerto Rico's housing sector needs a big fix. Through a careful analysis of housing damage caused by the 2017 hurricanes, the authors make informed re...
An Initial Methodology for Evaluating Social Equity Performance of the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Mitigation Grant Program
Some communities, such as low-income or minority communities, are disproportionately affected by the impact of disasters, in part because they have fe...
The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Program
The authors explore how the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities grant program addresses the greatest natural hazard risks for mitigation...