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Counting crime? A review on the production of crime data
(2024)CURATE Working PaperThis literature review is aimed at providing an overview of the arguments, concerns, and issues raised by criminologists, sociologists, and psychologists regarding crime data and their quality. Given the increasing, widespread use of (crime) data to serve analytical purposes (e.g., predictive policing) and global discussions and measures on big data (policing), this review presents relevant and timely insights. It assists our understanding ...Working Paper -
Education System Permeability
(2024)CES Working PapersThis paper proposes a model of returns to education based on the permeability of the education system. We define permeability as the availability of different program types up to the highest education levels and the ability to transition between programs (Caves et al., 2023). We develop six permeability models that reflect variation in the availability of programs and transitions. Building on Heckman et al. (2006)’s work on returns to ...Working Paper -
Genetic insurance and the value of genetic information
(2024)Losing at the genetic lottery can put you at a higher risk for debilitating illnesses, disability, or early death. This paper investigates the value of learning about one’s risk, e.g. through genetic testing, when the information cannot be used to influence health outcomes. In a 3-periods setting where insurance markets are complete, I show that individuals prefer consumption levels that depend on their risk type, suggesting that genetic ...Working Paper -
Detection and Mitigation of Glitches in LISA Data: A Machine Learning Approach
(2024)arXivThe proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission is tasked with the detection and characterization of gravitational waves from various sources in the universe. This endeavor is challenged by transient displacement and acceleration noise artifacts, commonly called glitches. Uncalibrated glitches impact the interferometric measurements and decrease the signal quality of LISA's time-delay interferometry (TDI) data used for ...Working Paper -
sectorgap: An R Package for Consistent Economic Trend Cycle Decomposition
(2024)KOF Working PapersDetermining potential output and the output gap—two inherently unobservable variables—is a major challenge for macroeconomists. This paper presents the R package sectorgap, which features a flexible modeling and estimation framework for a multivariate Bayesian state space model identifying economic output fluctuations consistent with subsectors of the economy. The proposed model is able to capture various correlations between output ...Working Paper -
Seeing and Hearing is Believing: The Role of Audiovisual Communication in Shaping Inflation Expectations
(2024)KOF Working PapersThis paper presents novel causal evidence on the relationship between various communication channels employed by central banks and households’ expectations about future inflation. In a pre-registered randomized survey experiment administered in 2022, we examine adjustment of inflation expectations when confronted with a press conference statement by the president of the European Central Bank (ECB) articulating the bank’s commitment to a ...Working Paper -
Seeing and Hearing is Believing: The Role of Audiovisual Communication in Shaping Inflation Expectations
(2024)Center for Law & Economics Working Paper SeriesThis paper presents novel causal evidence on the relationship between various communication channels employed by central banks and households’ expectations about future inflation. In a pre registered randomized survey experiment administered in 2022, we examine adjustment of inflation expectations when confronted with a press conference statement by the president of the European Central Bank (ECB) articulating the bank’s commitment to a ...Working Paper -
The Court Speaks, But Who Listens? Automated Compliance Review of the GDPR
(2024)Center for Law & Economics Working Paper SeriesWith the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation in 2018, the European Union put itself at the forefront of protecting privacy law world-wide. Under the GDPR, data protection agencies may impose fines up to 4% of a firm’s annual worldwide turnover. The largest fines actually imposed now surpass one billion Euro. Still, anecdotal and empirical evidence suggests that many firms violate the GDPR on a regular basis. This could ...Working Paper -
Nuancing Conjoint Experiments: Using Natural Language Processing to Analyze Decision-Reasoning
(2023)Understanding public preferences on policy issues is paramount, particularly in the realm of controversial policy areas like urban planning and housing. Existing survey techniques, however, may fall short of capturing the complexities of individual decision-making processes. This paper aims to bridge this gap by introducing a mixed-method approach for analyzing survey data, which combines survey experiments with the analysis of open-text ...Working Paper -
An alternative theory to linearised General Relativity
(2023)The motion of point-like masses in gravitational fields is described – in a Minkowski space-time metric – by an alternative theory to linearised general relativity (GRT). Its basic concept is that the inertial mass m(x) of a body depends spatially on the scalar potential Ø(x) of the gravitational field. A Lagrangian formalism leads to a modification of Newton’s law of gravitation. The theory explains correctly experiments generally ...Working Paper