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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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This paper studies the maturity and stream of payments of sovereign debt. Using Bloomberg bond data for eleven emerging economies, we document that countries react to crises by issuing debt with shortened maturity but back-load payment schedules. To account for this pattern, we develop a...
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structure is relevant in many applications. We develop the theory underlying optimal menus of non-linear schedules and prove …
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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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algorithm herself, her equity preference has no effect on the training procedure. So long as the data, however biased, contain … signal, they will be used and the learning algorithm will be the same. Equity preferences alone provide no reason to alter …
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volume of data available. Yet comparing the algorithm to the judge proves complicated. First, the data are themselves … set of preferences than the single variable that the algorithm focuses on; for instance, judges may care about racial … well. In addition, by focusing the algorithm on predicting judges' decisions, rather than defendant behavior, we gain some …
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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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number of possible approaches to these problems and develops a particular algorithm based on the work of Powell and Dennis …
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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 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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