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Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions over Geography and Integration in Economic Development
- FREE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN
, 2004
"... We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining income levels around the world, using recently developed instrumental variables for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of institutions “trumps” everything else. Once institutions ..."
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We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining income levels around the world, using recently developed instrumental variables for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of institutions “trumps” everything else. Once institutions
Institutions Matter, but Not for Everything
"... The role of geography and resource endowments in development shouldn’t be underestimated ..."
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The role of geography and resource endowments in development shouldn’t be underestimated
Everything is Dangerous: A Controversy
, 2008
"... We examine statistical analysis strategies of epidemiologists and statisticians using an evaluation method taken from Thomas Kuhn. Kuhn says that it is relatively easy to understand the paradigm of a science by examining their papers, texts and journals. The epidemiology paradigm is to make no corre ..."
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of defending their paradigm. Some multiple testing mistakes are due to ignorance (how often are you asked to re-examine the data to see if something can be found?), but others are intentional, following a (faulty) scientific paradigm; over $1B of grant/tax money flows to institutions with reproducibility
4 Dead Economic Dogmas Trump Recovery: The Continuing Crisis in the Eurozone Periphery
"... examination of diverse points of view, and dedicated to public service. The Institute is publishing this research with the conviction that it is a constructive and positive contribution to discussions and debates on relevant policy issues. Neither the Institute’s Board of Governors nor its advisers ..."
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examination of diverse points of view, and dedicated to public service. The Institute is publishing this research with the conviction that it is a constructive and positive contribution to discussions and debates on relevant policy issues. Neither the Institute’s Board of Governors nor its advisers
EDITORIAL Timing Means Everything, Maybe
"... Many patients with colorectal cancer will have liver metastases at the time of their initial diagnosis (synchro-nous) or will develop liver metastases at some point after undergoing potentially curative therapy for their primary disease (metachronous). For a large proportion of patients with metasta ..."
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of surgery. To date, much of what we have learned about the appropriate care of patients with liver metastases has come from retrospective summaries of institutional experience. However, a small but growing number of clinical trials exist.
Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society.
- The British Journal of Sociology
, 2000
"... ABSTRACT This article aims at proposing some elements for a grounded theor y of the network society. The network society is the social structure characteristic of the Information Age, as tentatively identi ed by empirical, cross-cultural investigation. It permeates most societies in the world, in v ..."
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, in various cultural and institutional manifestations, as the industrial society characterized the social structure of both capitalism and statism for most of the twentieth centur y. Social structures are organized around relationships of production/consumption, power, and experience, whose spatio
Life, the universe and everything An astrostatistics special
"... The disciplines of astronomy and statistics are coming together to answer some of the biggest questions in modern science. By Joseph M. Hilbe This section of Significance is devoted to some of the foremost problems in astronomy, and how statistics can help find answers to them. Questions such as: Wh ..."
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astrostatistics interest group was authorized by the International Statistical Institute (ISI). It became a full standing committee in 2009, and the ISI Astrostatistics Network was formed in 2010. In February 2012, Feigelson was able to secure funds from his department to establish an Astrostatistics &
Institutions
, 2012
"... Institutions and journals both have important duties relating to research and publication misconduct. Institutions are responsi ble for the conduct of their researchers and for encouraging a healthy research environment. Journals are responsible for the conduct of their editors, for safeguarding the ..."
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the research record, and for ensuring the reliability of everything they publish. It is therefore important for institutions and journals to communicate and collaborate effectively on cases relating to research integrity. To achieve this, we make the following recommendations.
Institutions
, 2012
"... Institutions and journals both have important duties relating to research and publication misconduct. Institutions are responsible for the conduct of their researchers and for encouraging a healthy research environment. Journals are responsible for the conduct of their editors, for safeguarding the ..."
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the research record, and for ensuring the reliability of everything they publish. It is therefore important for institutions and journals to communicate and collaborate effectively on cases relating to research integrity. To achieve this, we make the following recommendations.
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