Introduction / Majid Tehranian -- Religious challenges to global security / Mark Juergensmeyer -- Nuclear dilemmas in the 21st century / Yuri E. Fedorov -- The role of Russia in global security / Michael D. Intriligator -- Confidence building measures in Asia / Jozef Goldblat -- Western...

The Handbook is a definitive reference source and teaching aid for econometricians. It examines models, estimation theory, data analysis and field applications in econometrics. Comprehensive surveys, written by experts, discuss recent developments at a level suitable for professional use by...

It has been argued that increased life expectancy raises the rate of return on education, causing a rise in the investment in education followed by an increase in lifetime labor supply. Empirical evidence of these relations is rather weak. Building on a lifecycle model with uncertain longevity,...

This paper extends the standard model of optimum commodity taxation (Ramsey (1927) and Diamond-Mirrlees (1971)) to a competitive economy in which some markets are inefficient due to asymmetric information. As in most insurance markets, consumers impose varying costs on suppliers but firms cannot...