The economics 'credibility revolution' has promoted the identification of causal relationships using difference-in-differences (DID), instrumental variables (IV), randomized control trials (RCT) and regression discontinuity design (RDD) methods. The extent to which a reader should trust claims...

Either in the form of nature’s wrath or a pandemic, catastrophes cause major destructions in societies, thus requiring policy and decision makers to take urgent action by evaluating a host of interdependent parameters, and possible scenarios. The primary purpose of this pa-per is to propose a...

Brodeur et al. (2020) study a large number of hypothesis tests from top economic articles and find evidence for p-hacking or publication bias, in particular for articles using DID or IV as causal identification method. We show that a crucial continuity assumption is violated because many...

Introduction/reflections -- Authors -- Introduction to the PROACT root cause analysis (RCA) work process -- Introduction to the field of root cause analysis -- Creating the environment for RAC to succeed: the reliability performance process (TRPP) -- Failure classification -- Opportunity...