Search
Results
-
Why Countries Differ in Thin Capitalization Rules: The Role of Financial Development
(2015)CESifo Working PapersWorking Paper -
Diversification, protection of liability holders and regulatory arbitrage
(2015)arXivWorking Paper -
-
-
A standardized, extensible framework for optimizing classification improves marker-gene taxonomic assignments
(2015)PeerJ PreprintsBackground: Taxonomic classification of marker-gene (i.e., amplicon) sequences represents an important step for molecular identification of microorganisms. Results: We present three advances in our ability to assign and interpret taxonomic classifications of short marker gene sequences: two new methods for taxonomy assignment, which reduce runtime up to two-fold and achieve high-precision genus-level assignments; an evaluation of ...Working Paper -
Using avertive expenditures to estimate the demand for public goods
(2015)CIES Research PaperIn response to the perceived quality of a public good, households may choose to incur avertive expenditures as a substitute to its aggregate provision, thereby revealing an (inverse) demand function. When unobserved heterogeneity affects both perceived quality and avertive behavior, identification of the demand function is plagued by a problem of endogeneity. In this paper, I propose to use a first stage model of perceived quality as a ...Working Paper -
Global population growth, technology, and Malthusian constraints: A quantitative growth theoretic perspective
(2015)MIT Joint Program Report SeriesWorking Paper -
Stability analysis of fractional order systems described in the Lur'e structure
(2015)arXivLur'e systems are feedback interconnection of a linear time-invariant subsystem in the forward path and a memoryless nonlinear one in the feedback path, which have many physical representatives. In this paper, some classical theorems about the L2 input-output stability of integer order Lur'e systems are discussed, and the conditions under which these theorems can be applied in fractional order Lur'e systems with an order between 0 and 1 ...Working Paper