The survival of Cuba’s highly authoritarian regime ten years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall remains one of the more confounding facts of contemporary politics, strikingly so in light of numerous predictions by scholars, analysts and political observers about the regime’s inevitable demise. It would only be a matter of time, went the conventional […]

ASCE Proceedings, v. 9, page 298, Washington, D.C. 1999 1) Page 300, second column, 4th paragraph currently reads: P[ T_x ] : The probability the citizen dies on or before attaining age x years. It actually should read: P[ T £ x ] : The probability the citizen dies on or before attaining age x […]

Armando Linde’s paper provides an excellent overview of recent measures taken by the Cuban government as well as substantive advice on what needs to be done to ensure that those measures have a lasting impact on the banking system. In my comments, I would like to expand on some of the issues raised by his […]

I must apologize for not being able to be with you at this conference, especially because the subject of this particular panel interests me so much. The paper which I have read presents a significant methodological advance in the study of what I will call, for want of a better term “captive populations.” As many […]

In a nut shell, the author poses the question: is U.S. foreign policy toward Cuba subject to elite opinion? The way Dan Fisk has written his paper becomes a consultation of data that has been available for some time but that no one has taken the time to analyze as minutely as he has. The consequence […]