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This article presents abstracts of several studies on insurance policies. Recent Experience Under the Medicare Program, by Ronald V. Gresch. The Design of Contracts of Remedies for Breach, by Steven Shavell. Two-Persons Bargaining Problems With Incomplete Information, by Roger B. Myerson. Disclosure of Pension Liabilities: The Information Content of Unfunded Vested Benefits and Unfunded Past Service Cost, by Joshua Livnat. Insurance and Saving: Some Further Results, by Georges Dionne. Preference Reversals: A Broader Perspective, by Paul Slovic and Sarah Lichtenstein. Risk Aversion and Mean-Preserving Spread: Analysis and Applications, by Marcel Boyer and Georges Dionne. Risk Attitude and Time Preference in Health, by Amiram Gafni and George W. Torrence. Modeling the Societal Impact of Fatal Accidents, by Paul Slovic, Sarah Lichtenstein and Baruch Fischhoff. Survival Versus Consumption, by Donald S. Shephard and Richard J. Zechhauser. Stochastic Dominance and Parameter Estimation: The Case of Symmetric Stable Distributions, by Moshe Ben-Horim and Haim Levy. Medical Insurance, Technological Change and Welfare, by John H. Goddeeris. Poorhouses and the Origins of the Public Old Age Home, by Michael B. Katz.