Austrian firearms: data require cautious approach

Evidence from Austrian Firm-Level Data

This paper provides an economic assessment of export credit guarantee commitments by the Austrian export credit agency, using firm-level data on a cross-section of 178 Austrian exporting firms for the year 2008. In a first step, we estimate the relative importance of various determinants of export guarantee usage. Results suggest that the most crucial determinants are: firm size, whether or not...

Firearms, violence, and the potential impact of firearms control.

Austrian themes , data , and sports economics

This paper uses data from Major League Baseball and themes from Moneyball by Michael Lewis to empirically illustrate Kirznerian entrepreneurship. While Kirzner envisioned competition in markets for profit, the sports economics literature shows that sporting competition has things in common with market competition. This is important because a strength of sports economics, namely, the abundant da...

Cautious apoptosis

In This Issue In This Issue Held back by a finger he familiar arm-over-arm kinesin swing was recently challenged by proposals that KIF1A acts as a processive, but monomeric, kinesin motor. The proposal involved a rotation of the motor that, along with a microtubule-binding patch, would bias further movement in one direction. But now Al-Bassam et al. add to the growing evidence that the KIF1A or...

A More Cautious Approach to Security Against Mass Surveillance

At CRYPTO 2014 Bellare, Paterson, and Rogaway (BPR) presented a formal treatment of symmetric encryption in the light of algorithm-substitution attacks (ASAs), which may be employed by ‘big brother’ entities for the scope of mass surveillance. Roughly speaking, in ASAs big brother may bias ciphertexts to establish a covert channel to leak vital cryptographic information. In this work, we identi...