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Lakdawalla, Darius - 2006

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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Hard Targets : Theory and Evidence on Suicide Attacks

Berman, Eli - 2005

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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Insurance, Self-Protection, and the Economics of Terrorism

Lakdawalla, Darius - 2002

This paper investigates the rationale for government intervention in the market for terrorism insurance, focusing on …

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Pensions and Contemporary Socioeconomic Change

Lindbeck, Assar - 2000

The paper discusses the consequences for the functioning of different pension systems of various types of socioeconomic changes, mainly demographic developments, variations in productivity growth and changes in real interest rates. Two of the pension systems have exogenous and four have...

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The Impact of Young Workers on the Aggregate Labor Market

Shimer, Robert - 1999

and destruction in manufacturing support this theory. I also reconcile these results with existing evidence on the labor …

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Population Growth and Firm Dynamics

Peters, Michael; Walsh, Conor - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Population growth has declined markedly in almost all major economies since the 1970s. We argue this trend has important consequences for the process of firm dynamics and aggregate growth. We study a rich semi-endogenous growth model of firm dynamics, and show analytically that a decline in...

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Population, Productivity, and Sustainable Consumption

Pindyck, Robert S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How does the sustainable level of consumption depend on productivity growth and the size and growth rate of the population? What is the effect of uncertainty over these growth rates? I address these questions using a model in which productivity and population growth are stochastic, and social...

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Death, Population Growth, Productivity Growth and Debt Neutrality

Buiter, Willem H. - 1986

Debt neutrality is said to occur if, given a program for public spending on current goods and services over time, the real equilibrium of the economy (private consumption, investment, relative prices, etc.) is independent of the pattern of government borrowing and lump-sum taxation over time....

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Demographic Differences in Cyclical Employment Variation

Clark, Kim B. - 1980

Demographic differences in patterns of employment variation over the business cycle are examined in this paper. Three primary conclusions emerge. First, both participation and unemployment must be considered in any analysis of cyclical changes in the labor market. Second, young people bear a...

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The Old Age Security Hypothesis and Population Growth

Willis, Robert J. - 1979

In traditional societies it is often argued that parents' desire for old age security in the form of transfers from their children provides an important motive for childbearing. Some doubt has been cast on this "old age security hypothesis" by recent estimates which suggest that the rate of...

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