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View article: How altruistic is indirect reciprocity? — Evidence from gift-exchange games in the lab
How altruistic is indirect reciprocity? — Evidence from gift-exchange games in the lab Open
Indirect reciprocity involves human cooperation, where one agent rewards or punishes another agent for behaving kindly or unkindly towards a third party. This paper analyzes the question of what drives indirect reciprocity: Does the agent …
View article: Feasibility of nowcasting SDG indicators: a comprehensive survey
Feasibility of nowcasting SDG indicators: a comprehensive survey Open
The 2030 Agenda and accompanying Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are vital in guiding national and global policy. However, many of the SDG indicators used to measure progress toward those goals suffer from long publication lags. Nowca…
View article: Benchmarking Econometric and Machine Learning Methodologies in Nowcasting
Benchmarking Econometric and Machine Learning Methodologies in Nowcasting Open
Nowcasting can play a key role in giving policymakers timelier insight to data published with a significant time lag, such as final GDP figures. Currently, there are a plethora of methodologies and approaches for practitioners to choose fr…
View article: Performance of LSTM Neural Networks in Nowcasting during the COVID-19 Crisis
Performance of LSTM Neural Networks in Nowcasting during the COVID-19 Crisis Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the increasing need of policymakers for timely estimates of macroeconomic variables. A prior UNCTAD research paper examined the suitability of long short-term memory artificial neural networks (LSTM) …
View article: The political economy of interregional competition for firms
The political economy of interregional competition for firms Open
This paper studies the impact of majority voting on interregional competition for firms. We model the competition as a first-price sealed bid auction under full information between two regions inhabited by low- and high-skilled individuals…