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This paper analyzes the normative role for civil liability in aligning terrorism precaution incentives, when the … perpetrators of terrorism are unreachable by courts or regulators. We consider the strategic interaction among targets, subsidiary … targets of terrorism, coupled with direct compensation to victims of terrorist attacks …
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This paper investigates the rationale for government intervention in the market for terrorism insurance, focusing on …
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Who chooses suicide attacks? Though rebels typically target poor countries, suicide attacks are just as likely to target rich democracies. Though many groups have grievances, suicide attacks are favored by the radical religious. Though rebels often kill coreligionists, they seldom use suicide...
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The dynamic behavior of security prices is studied in a setting where two agents trade strategically and learn over time from market prices. The model introduces an information structure which is intended to capture the notion that information is difficult to interpret. Strategic interaction and...
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We provide a selective survey of empirical evidence on the effects as well as the drivers of persuasive communication … response to persuasive communication? In particular, we distinguish information-based models from preference-based models …
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We develop a model of asset price bubbles based on the communication process between advisors and investors. Advisors …
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Over the last two decades, communication has become an increasingly important aspect of monetary policy. These real …-world developments have spawned a huge new scholarly literature on central bank communication -- mostly empirical, and almost all of it … written in this decade. We survey this ever-growing literature. The evidence suggests that communication can be an important …
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particularly attractive locations to offshore? In this paper we address these questions with a theory of international production … hierarchies in which organizations arise endogenously to make efficient use of agents' knowledge. Our theory highlights the role … that the positive effect of middle skills on offshoring is weaker, the more advanced are communication technologies in the …
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Information is a crucial ingredient in economic decision making. Yet measuring the extent of information exchange among individuals and its effect on economic outcomes is a difficult task. We use the universe of de-identified cellphone usage records from more than one million users in a Chinese...
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A large empirical literature found that the correlation between insurance purchase and ex post realization of risk is often statistically insignificant or negative. This is inconsistent with the predictions from the classic models of insurance a la Akerlof (1970), Pauly (1974) and Rothschild and...
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