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We provide causal evidence that public pension generosity reduces private savings by only 30 cents per dollar: revised estimates using administrative data from 8 oecd countries. Our identification strategy combines quasi-experimental variation with state-of-the-art econometric techniques including difference-in-differences with staggered treatment adoption, instrumental variables estimation, and regression discontinuity designs.

Gross Domestic Product can be measured from three conceptually equivalent approaches: expenditure, production (value-added), and income. National accounting identities guarantee their theoretical equality, yet in practice the three estimates diverge due to measurement error, survey timing, and revision practices.

As autonomous AI agents increasingly perform actions on behalf of humans—from booking travel and making purchases to executing financial transactions—the question of liability when things go wrong becomes increasingly urgent. This paper examines the complex landscape of agentic error, analyzing different types of unintentional errors (hallucinations, bias, prompt issues, technical failures, model errors, and API/MCP issues) and malicious attacks (fraud, prompt injections, malicious skills/codes/instructions, and fake MCPs).