Pro‐Market Economic Reforms and Resource Curse: Do Initial Conditions Matter?
Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The quality of economic institutions plays a crucial role in enhancing a country's economic performance, leading international organisations to recommend pro‐market institutional reforms as a strategy to support economic development. This paper investigates how the natural resource curse affects pro‐market reforms, analysing a sample of 90 ...
Isaac Amedanou, Kwamivi Mawuli Gomado
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High-dimensional biomarker identification for interpretable disease prediction via machine learning models. [PDF]
BioinformaticsDai Y, Wu D, Carroll I, Zou F, Zou B.
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Theory I: Why and When Can Deep Networks Avoid the Curse of Dimensionality?
, 2016 Tomaso Poggio +4 more
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Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract In this study, we explore the long‐run effects of Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Using a robust regression discontinuity design, we identify persistent differences in socio‐economic development across the South Livonia–Courland and the South Livonia–Lettgallia borders that emerged as a result of the ...
Theocharis N. Grigoriadis, Alise Vitola
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Exploring unsupervised feature extraction algorithms: tackling high dimensionality in small datasets. [PDF]
Sci RepNiu H +4 more
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Riding the monsoon: Geography and Iron Age trade in the Indian Ocean
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper exploits ancient textual sources to develop a database of ancient trade in the Indian Ocean and model trade in the region during the Iron Age. Wind‐speed data are used to construct a gravity model of trade and are combined with detailed textual data from the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea to analyse historical development trends in ...
Conrad Copeland
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The new poor law and the health of the population of England and Wales
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We estimate the impact of reductions in poor law expenditure on rural life expectancy and mortality rates in England and Wales following the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act. Given the scale of cuts imposed, our estimates imply 8–10 per cent increases in mortality at ages 1–4 years and 2–4 per cent falls in rural expectation of life at birth.
David Green +3 more
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Nonlinear Shrinkage Estimation of Higher-Order Moments for Portfolio Optimization Under Uncertainty in Complex Financial Systems. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel)Lu W, Tian Z.
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
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Learning dynamical systems with hit-and-run random feature maps. [PDF]
Nat CommunMandal P, Gottwald GA.
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