.1 percent of world population, implying 150 million deaths when applied to current population. Regressions with annual …

understanding world oil markets …

equity premium involves a race between `alpha` and the coefficient of relative risk aversion, `gamma`. A higher `alpha …

by at least 10%. The principal world economic crises ranked by importance are World War II, World War I and the Great … Depression, the early 1920s (possibly reflecting the influenza epidemic of 1918-20), and post-World War II events such as the …" coefficient of relative risk aversion of 3.5. This result is robust to a number of perturbations, except for limiting the sample …

with key asset-pricing observations. If the coefficient of relative risk aversion equals 3-4, the model accords with … observed equity premia and risk-free real interest rates. If the intertemporal elasticity of substitution is greater than one … welfare cost of aggregate consumption uncertainty. In the baseline simulation, the welfare cost of disaster risk is large …

Questions about current and prior religion adherence from the International Social Survey Program and the World Values …