A Russian Shadow over the Assassination in Sarajevo

The ‘birth-and-assassination’ Process

A new variant of a branching process is introduced, with sufficient conditions for it to persist and to die out. The model is applied to discuss the asymptotic stability of a new type of queuing process.

Famine: the distant shadow over French psychiatry.

Assassination of President

1330 Attending college, without the right to vote, I had little or no interest in national politics (or state or local, for that matter). In the fall of 1960, John Kennedy arrived in Dayton to give a morning campaign speech from the courthouse steps. Cutting classes, I zigzagged through the crowd to watch and hear Kennedy speak to everyone, regardless of age, race, religion, or gender. That spe...

mesuring the staff technology readiness, the case of a multi national chemical company operating in iran

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Leader Assassination and Economic Growth

This paper studies whether national leadership shocks affect a country’s economic growth. Jones and Olken [2005] find that national leaders’ accidental death affects growth. In subsequent work, Jones and Olken [2009] find that different outcomes of assassination attempts, successful attempts versus unsuccessful ones, matter for countries’ institutions. This paper considers whether the outcome o...