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Inspections to Avert Terrorism: Robustness Under Severe Uncertainty

Moffitt, L. Joe; Stranlund, John K.; Field, Barry C. - 2005

Protecting against terrorist attacks requires making decisions in a world in which attack probabilities are largely unknown. The potential for very large losses encourages a conservative perspective, in particular toward decisions that are robust. But robustness, in the sense of assurance...

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Analysis of the Colby quarterly econometric model of the U.S. economy using the economic effects of September 11th

Culpen, Alison - 2002

The economic repercussions of September 11th are unique in that never before have economists needed to forecast and examine the impact of an event of such magnitude. This paper explains many of the economic effects of September l Ith, from the initial aftermath to recent developments. These...

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Three Essays on the Objective Function in Economics.

Goldstein, Daniel A. - 2007

This dissertation consists of three largely independent essays. The first finds a significant correlation between the price of crude oil and significant terrorist attacks by groups of Middle Eastern origin against Western nations. In particular, such terrorist attacks are considerably more...

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Repression and Newtwork Science: Tools in Fight against Terrorism

Wright, Dominick' E - 2010

terrorism. Chapter 2 takes the opposite view, using highpoweredstatistics to evaluate a single case. At question is the tool in …

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Simulations in 3D tactics, interdiction and multi-agent modelling

Green, A. R.; Piper, I. C.; Keep, D.; Flaherty, C. J. - 2009

within a complex 3D environment. This approach, we believe is needed to ‘solve’ the counter terrorism problem presented by …

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Medicaid Crowd-Out of Long-Term Care Insurance with Endogenous Medicaid Enrollment

Kim, Geena - 2010

With states facing tightening Medicaid budgets, the high cost of financing long-term care for the elderly through Medicaid has prompted proposals to make private long-term care insurance (LTCI) more affordable through tax incentives. The effectiveness of tax incentives for stimulating LTCI...

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Solving the Feldstein–Horioka Puzzle With Financial Frictions

Bai, Yan; Zhang, Jing - 2010

Unlike the prediction of a frictionless open economy model, long-term average savings and investment rates are highly … that the calibrated model with both frictions produces a savings–investment correlation and a volume of capital flows close …

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The Response of Consumption in Russian Households to Economic Shocks

Stillman, Steven - 2001

changes in household savings are negatively related to exogenous income shocks, with this relationship strongest for low … wealth households. Only models of consumption which include precautionary savings motives can explain why poorer households … both reduce their consumption and increase their savings in response to an exogenous decline in income. …

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Substituting Corporate Saving for Personal Saving: An Explanation for Falling Personal Saving Rates

Barney, L. Dwayne; Schooley, Diane K.; White, Harry - 2009

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the hypothesis that savers may be substituting equity capital gains from stockholdings for traditional measures of personal saving. The analysis also aims to investigate dividend yield (DY) as a signal to investors about corporate saving rates...

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14.54 International Trade, Fall 2005

Lorenzoni, Guido - 2005

.e. international trade, and what determines the flow of savings and investments from one country to another, i.e. international finance …

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