The toxin and antidote puzzle

The toxin and antidote puzzle: new ways to control insect pest populations through manipulating inheritance.

Insects carry out essential ecological functions, such as pollination, but also cause extensive damage to agricultural crops, and transmit human diseases such as malaria and dengue fever. Advances in insect transgenesis are making it increasingly feasible to engineer genes conferring desirable phenotypes, and gene drive systems are required to spread these genes into wild populations. Medea pro...

The Metamorphosis Antidote

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Iranian Cinema: The Puzzle of Westernization and Self-Orientalism

An Antidote and Emergency Case

The Equity Premium Puzzle and the Risk-free Rate Puzzle

This paper studies the implications for general equilibnum asset pricing of a class of Kreps-Porteus nonexpected utility preferences characterized by a constant intertemporal elasticity of substitution and a constant, but unrelated, coefficient of relative risk aversion. It is shown that relaxing the parametric restriction on tastes imposed by the time-additive expected utility specification do...