Based on unique Swedish historical panel data on voluntary Swedish sick insurance societies 1902-1910, we test the hypothesis od economies of scale in sick insurance provision. We report results indicating that pure insurance societies charging only premium ex ante do not exhibit returns to...

A method to allocate the benefits to the players of a cooperative game is the Shapley value. Its computation demands the knowledge of all coaltion worths with certainty. This paper introduces the expected Shapley value, an extension of the Shapley to games were not all the worths are known with...

Author starts from important but suppressed equalisation of economy and management in post socialist and post capitalist circumstances which represents the very essence of post-modern global dominance (globalisation). An attempt to distinguish economy from management is connected with the...