To cope with business cycle risks, a government has several fiscal measures at its disposal. First, the government may reduce the economic cost of recession. Second, the government may stimulate GDP in a recession. Furthermore, it is also useful to maintain a boom as long as possible. For each...

Since the 1960s Olson-Zeckhauser's (1966) analysis, its 'exploitation of the great by the small' has provided economists' core model of alliance's provision of security/defense. But with the end of the Cold War, countries' allocative behavior has diverged markedly from OZ's predictions for...