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Policy news and stock market volatility Open

Scott Baker, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Kyle Kost · 2025

Reflections on Translating Law and Economic Models for Lawyers and Law Professors Open

Scott Baker · 2025

Written as part of a keynote address for the 20th Annual Asian Law and Economics Conference, these remarks reflect on the way lawyers, judges, and law professors without economic training view and use law and economic models. After revisit…

First At‐Sea Identifications of Ginkgo‐Toothed Beaked Whale ( <span> <i>Mesoplodon ginkgodens</i> </span> ): Acoustics, Genetics, and Biological Observations Off Baja California, México Open

E. Elizabeth Henderson, Lisa T. Ballance, Gustavo Cárdenas‐Hinojosa, Jay Barlow, Annamaria I. DeAngelis , et al. · 2025

In 2024, an expedition was conducted off northwestern Baja California, México, to find and identify the beaked whale species that produced the BW43 echolocation pulse previously recorded in this area and elsewhere in the North Pacific. The…

Age-specific body length, mass, and energetic cost of growth in humpback whales Open

Martin van Aswegen, A. Szabó, Jens J. Currie, Stephanie H. Stack, Janice M. Straley , et al. · 2025

Body size is a fundamental parameter in modeling the energetic trade-offs related to growth, activity, maintenance, and reproduction. This study integrated photogrammetry from an unoccupied aerial system (UAS; drone) with individual life h…

Correlation in State and Local Tax Changes Open

Scott Baker, Pawel Janas, Lorenz Kueng · 2024

Empirical research in public economics, including our own, often uses variation in state and local taxes as an empirical laboratory to estimate causal relationships.A key concern is that other taxes might change at the same time.To assess …

Constraining the radiocarbon reservoir age for the Southern Ocean using whale bones salvaged from early 20th century whaling stations Open

Claire Divola, Alexander R. Simms, Angela L. Sremba, Scott Baker, Ari S. Friedlaender , et al. · 2024

Radiocarbon dating is arguably the most common method for dating Quaternary deposits. However, accurate age assignments using radiocarbon dating are dependent on knowing the radiocarbon reservoir. For the coastal waters across Antarctica, …

A pan‐cetacean MHC amplicon sequencing panel developed and evaluated in combination with genome assemblies Open

Dorothea Heimeier, Ellen C. Garland, Franca Eichenberger, Claire Garrigue, Adriana Vella , et al. · 2024

The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a highly polymorphic gene family that is crucial in immunity, and its diversity can be effectively used as a fitness marker for populations. Despite this, MHC remains poorly characterised in no…

Data for EMSL Project 60052 from January 2024 Open