How much credit can be given to entrepreneurship for the unprecedented innovation and growth of free-enterprise economies? In this book, some of the world's leading economists tackle this difficult and understudied question, and their responses shed new light on how free-market economies...

This paper describes the crisis of Romania's pension system , and analyses the reforms the government elected in 1996 is undertaking to resolve this crisis. Insolvency was principally due to demoralization of the system in the period following the collapse of Communism. Governments from 1990 to...

When information on longevity (survival functions) is unknown early in life, individuals have an interest in insuring themselves against moving into different 'risk-classes' as their life expectancy is revealed. The "First-Best" allocation involves transfers across states of nature. With...