Are trademark owners harmed when observers on the street mistake knockoffs for the real thing? The concept of "post-sale confusion"—which has resulted in verdicts over over $300 million—is predicated on the notion that trademarks can be harmed even if no consumer is ever confused about what...

This paper is about economists and their opinions on economic policies. Using a representative sample of Italian economists as a case study, we show that disagreement is large on both the causes of the economic difficulties in Italy and the economic policies to be implemented for a recovery....

The paper discusses qualitative input-output methods. It is shown that information is lost. Because the binary relation constructed by qualitative methods is not transitive, the model lacks economic consistency. Qualitative methods are tending to become more sophisticated, but some problems of...

I propose a nonparametric iid bootstrap that achieves asymptotic refinements for t tests and confidence intervals based on the generalized method of moments (GMM) estimators even when the model is misspecified. In addition, my bootstrap does not require recentering the bootstrap moment function,...

Internal capital models are increasingly used across the insurance business, including reinsurance optimization, risk appetite and business planning. While this expansion is well documented, less is known about what modelers do in practice, in order to embed capital models within their...

In this paper we analyze how Poverty and social sciences research, dedicated to poverty, are worked in journalism, using some cases as example. Journalism dedicated to the dissemination of info on research and results from scientific studies related to poverty has an important role of educating...

Throughout the long postwar period, crisis was a conjectural phenomenon and the exception in a normalcy of growth and social progress. Many key concepts of the social sciences - indeed, our understanding of democracy, embedded markets, enlightened electorates, benevolent political elites, and...

This essay gives an overview of a set of selected articles published between 2016 and 2017 in the major journals that cover the history of economic thought. In surveying the literature, we focus on three major aspects - the scope, the sources, and the methods - with reference to which we discuss...

Um sozial-, verhaltens- und wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Forschungsdaten nachhaltig sichern und ggf. auch bereitstellen zu können, sind verschiedene Vorkehrungen und Maßnahmen zu treffen, die bereits bei der Planung und Durchführung von Forschungsprojekten berücksichtigt werden müssen....