Untimely death, the value of certain lifetime and macroeconomic dynamics

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 343-359

  Naor, Ziv ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cumulative prospect theory; Growth; Terror; Value of life

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746023312     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: 14768267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10242690600688407     Document Type: Article

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