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new quasi-experimental tools to measure the impact of human discretion over an algorithm on the accuracy of decisions … judges in our setting underperform the algorithm when they make a discretionary override, with most making override decisions … that are no better than random. Yet the remaining 10% of judges outperform the algorithm in terms of both accuracy and …
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three central questions that have parallels in the matching literature: (1) Does a stable allocation of votes always exists …? (2) Is it reachable through a decentralized algorithm? (3) What welfare properties does it possess? We prove that a … allocation achieved via sequential pairwise trades, but lends only weak support to the dynamic algorithm itself …
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We first summarize the dominant interpretations of the "frontier" in the United States and predecessor colonies over the past 400 years: agricultural (1610s-1880s), industrial (1890s-1930s), scientific (1940s- 1980s), and algorithmic (1990s-present). We describe the difference between the...
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An accurate global algorithm is critical for quantifying the dynamics of the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model …
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We introduce an algorithm for solving dynamic economic models that merges stochastic simulation and projection … support of the ergodic measure roughly uniformly. The proposed algorithm is tractable in problems with high dimensionality …
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We describe and compare several algorithms for approximating the solution to a model in" which inequality constraints occasionally bind. Their performance is evaluated and compared" using various parameterizations of the one sector growth model with irreversible investment. We" develop...
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NL2SOL is a modular program for solving the nonlinear least-squares problem that incorporates a number of novel features. It maintains a secant approximation S to the second-order part of the least-squares Hessian and adaptively decides when to use this approximation. We have found it very...
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A new algorithm for the group minimization problem (GP) is proposed. The algorithm can be broadly described as follows …-known algorithm of Glover, and checked for non-negativity. The first non-negative point is an optimal solution of (GP). Advantages and … disadvantages of the algorithm are discussed; in particular, the implementation of the algorithm (which can be easily extended so as …
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number of possible approaches to these problems and develops a particular algorithm based on the work of Powell and Dennis …
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The law forbids discrimination. But the ambiguity of human decision-making often makes it extraordinarily hard for the legal system to know whether anyone has actually discriminated. To understand how algorithms affect discrimination, we must therefore also understand how they affect the problem...
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