This paper provides researchers with an objective list of checks to consider when planning a replication study with the objective of validating findings for informing policy. These replication studies should begin with a pure replication of the published results and then reanalyse the original...

BankCaR is a credit risk model that forecasts the distribution of a commercial bank's charge-offs. The distribution depends only on systematic factors; BankCaR takes each bank and projects its expected charge-off across a distribution of good years and bad years. Since most bank failures occur...

With proactive dependent interviewing respondents are reminded of the answer they gave in the previous interview, before being asked about their current status. We examine the risk that respondents falsely confirm the answers from the previous interview as still applying, using data from a panel...

Die Herausforderung, das bestehende Zentrale-Orte-Konzept in Nordrhein-Westfalen zu validieren bzw. auf seine empirische Entsprechung hin zu überprüfen liegt darin, Lücken im Zielsystem des LEP plausibel zu schließen und zugleich Hinweise für ein künftiges Zielsystem zu geben. Ziel der...