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Collective procrastination and protest cycles

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper studies a model of “pivotal protesting,” in which citizens act in order to change the outcome rather than to collect private benefits. We show that, when citizens face repeated opportunities to protest against a regime, pivotal protesting entails complex dynamic considerations: The continuation value of the status quo influences the
Germán Gieczewski, Korhan Kocak
wiley   +1 more source

On the diversity of test instances for studying branch‐and‐bound performance

open access: yesAustralian &New Zealand Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.
Summary In their paper ‘An Automatic Method for Solving Discrete Programming Problems’, Ailsa Land and Alison Doig developed a branch‐and‐bound method for solving the general case of the mixed integer linear programming (MIP) problem. A core part of the algorithm, branch variable selection, has received renewed attention in recent years with the ...
Simon Bowly, Kate Smith‐Miles
wiley   +1 more source

Normalising Transformation of the Hill Estimator

open access: yesAustralian &New Zealand Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We present a normalising transformation of the Hill estimator to improve the convergence rate in finite‐sample performance. Our proposal for the normalising transformation is based on the higher order asymptotic expansion of the Hill estimator. The transformation is automatic and simple in computation.
Rikako Nomura, Yan Liu
wiley   +1 more source

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