This paper analyses public policy choices in the security economy from an economic perspective. It discusses the role of public goods for national and global security and identifies the importance of the first- and second-order indirect effects of insecurity on economic activity, which include...

Die Studie untersucht die strukturelle Entwicklung der deutschen Wirtschaft bis zur Mitte der 90er Jahre. Der Strukturwandel wird weiterhin von der Fortentwicklung der internationalen Arbeitsteilung und von Verschiebungen zugunsten der Dienstleistungen geprägt. Vermehrte Dienstleistungsinputs...

The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty inUkraine during transition using two comparable surveys from 1996 and 2004. We measurepoverty using income and consumption and contrast the effects of various poverty lines...

We run a novel experiment to explore the relationship between the perception of real-life risks and the demand for risk reduction. Subjects play a series of loss lotteries in which the odds are matched to the likelihood of lethal events in real life. For each risk, subjects can pay premiums in...