Population Borrowing Behavior: Trends and Risks

Borrowing and non-Borrowing among International Courts

Why do some international courts and judges extensively borrow from other international courts while others do not? Answers to this question have important implications for debates on transjudicial communication, the diffusion of international legal norms, and international judicial behavior. Judges may use external sources because they help improve decisions or because it fits their ideologica...

Hair fashion trends and formaldehyde health risks.

The Swedish housing market: Trends and risks

The views expressed in this report are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council. Preface In December 2011 the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council invited me to prepare a report on recent trends and risks in the Swedish housing market. My background for accepting the invitation was my long-standing interest in the Swedish economy and Swedish econo...

Incidence, trends, and risks of ectopic pregnancy in a population of women.

In a 20-year longitudinal study on ectopic pregnancy in a defined population of women aged 15-39 years the rate of ectopic pregnancy per 1000 diagnosed conceptions increased from 5.8 during 1960-4 to 11.1 during 1975-9. The mean annual incidence of ectopic pregnancy per 1000 women increased from 0.6 to 1.2 during the same period. The numbers of ectopic pregnancies per 1000 diagnosed conceptions...

Rochester Borrowing-proofness Borrowing-proofness

We formulate and study the requirement on an allocation rule that no agent should be able to benefit by augmenting his endowment through borrowing resources from the outside world (alternatively, by simply exaggerating it). We show that the Walrasian rule is not “borrowing-proof” even on standard domains. More seriously, no efficient selection from the endowments-lower-bound correspondence, or ...