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Calculating failure: the making of a calculative infrastructure for forgiving and forecasting failure

Kurunmaki, Liisa; Miller, Peter - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper examines how the category of failure was economised and made calculable. It explores the preconditions for … this shift in three stages. First, it explores how failure came to be ‘forgiven’ in both the U.S. and the U.K. across the …, it explores the rapid growth of narrating and rating failure in the mid nineteenth century, with particular attention to …

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The Dantzig selector in Cox's proportional hazards model

Antoniadis, Anestis; Fryzlewicz, Piotr; Letué, Frédérique - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

The Dantzig selector (DS) is a recent approach of estimation in high-dimensional linear regression models with a large number of explanatory variables and a relatively small number of observations. As in the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO), this approach sets certain...

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Co-ordination failure and the role of banks in the resolution of financial distress

Pagratis, Spyros - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This article discusses the out-of-court restructuring of the contractual obligations of a financially distressed firm, under conditions of asymmetric information among the firm’s creditors and in situations where a creditor bank makes concessions conditional on other creditors’ actions. I...

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