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Quantifying Artistic Success : Ranking French Painters - and Paintings - from Impressionism to Cubism

Galenson, David W. - 1999

For 35 leading painters who lived in France during the first century of modern art, this paper uses textbook illustrations as the basis for measuring the importance of both painters and individual paintings. The rankings pose an interesting puzzle: why do some of the greatest artists not produce...

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Statistical Uncertainty in the Ranking of Journals and Universities

Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Shaikh, Azeem M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

these confidence sets to draw inferences about uncertainty in the ranking of economics journals and universities by impact …

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Measuring Relative Poverty through Peer Rankings : Evidence from Côte D'Ivoire

Dupas, Pascaline; Fafchamps, Marcel; Houeix, Deivy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We investigate a method for eliciting relative poverty rankings that aggregates partial poverty rankings obtained from multiple individuals. We first demonstrate that the method works in principle, then apply it in urban Côte d'Ivoire. We find that constructed rankings are often incomplete, not...

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Finite- and Large-Sample Inference for Ranks using Multinomial Data with an Application to Ranking Political Parties

Bazylik, Sergei; Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

prominent example is the ranking of political candidates or parties using the estimated share of support each one receives in … than the true share of support, there may be considerable uncertainty concerning the true ranking of the political … our finite-sample confidence sets are informative across the entire ranking of political parties, even in Australian …

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Representing Symmetric Rank Two Updates

Gay, David M. - 1976

Various quasi-Newton methods periodically add a symmetric "correction" matrix of rank at most 2 to a matrix approximating some quantity A of interest (such as the Hessian of an objective function). In this paper we examine several ways to express a symmetric rank 2 matrix [delta] as the sum of...

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Measuring the Spatial Distribution of Health Rankings in the United States

Davis, Will - 2020

We rank counties in the United States of America with respect to population health. We utilize the five observable county health variables used to construct the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute's County Health Rankings (CHRs). Our method relies on a factor analysis model to...

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The Changing Selectivity of American Colleges

Hoxby, Caroline M. - 2009

This paper shows that although the top ten percent of colleges are substantially more selective now than they were 5 decades ago, most colleges are not more selective. Moreover, at least 50 percent of colleges are substantially less selective now than they were then. This paper demonstrates that...

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The Alchemy of CDO Credit Ratings

Benmelech, Efraim - 2009

Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs) were one of the largest and fastest growing segments of the structured finance market, fueling the 2003-2007 boom in syndicated loans and leveraged buyouts. The credit crisis brought CLO issuance to a halt, and as a result the leveraged loan market dried...

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The Governance and Performance of Research Universities : Evidence from Europe and the U.S

Aghion, Philippe - 2009

We investigate how university governance affects research output, measured by patenting and international university research rankings. For both European and U.S. universities, we generate several measures of autonomy, governance, and competition for research funding. We show that university...

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The Power of Attention : Do Rankings Affect the Financial Resources of Public Colleges?

Jin, Ginger Zhe - 2007

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