As the COVID-19 crisis intensified, policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels started suspending or rescinding laws and regulations that hindered sensible, speedy responses to the pandemic. These “rule departures” raised many questions. Were the paused rules undermining public...

Three months into the COVID-19 outbreak caused by a novel strain of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the world is still in search of an effective therapeutic drug. Experimental drugs developed for other infections, such as Gilead's remdesivir, have been repurposed with unclear success. A recent small...

Public health measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have introduced “social distancing” into the national lexicon. Drone companies believe they can help. Drone technology is ready to break out into a mass service and reduce person-to-person contact. There are a few dozen pilot...

What do we obtain from attempting to conserve our traditions in this age of 'One World?' This query has since long put forth the irony between 'Space' - as seen in necessity of the transforming world and 'Culture' - as seen in resistance to transformations therein. The interdependence of space...

This study examines the development of pension systems based on the main classical models: capital-covering, cost-covering and mixed. Particular attention is paid to the types of pension savings, whereas analyzed in detail are corporate pension funds, independent pension funds and funds...

In recent years, policy experiments using large microeconomic datasets have gained ground in macroeconomics. Imposing rational expectations, we examine robustness of evidence derived from ideal natural experiments applied to atomistic agents in dynamic settings. Paradoxically, once experimental...

The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) with intelligent machine learning has helped humans in various sectors to achieve higher efficiency, more intelligent decision-making, and sustainability-sound solution providing. From the industrialization perspective, it has brought human society...

Turkish abstract: Umrani Kısım: Joseph Antoine Bouvard 27 Mayıs 1909 İstanbul Raporu (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti İstanbul Şehremaneti Mecmuası, Yıl:1341/1925, Şubat, Sayı:6 Sayfa:138-143)Joseph Antoine Bouvard’ın kaleme aldığı, İstanbul’un kent sorunları ve planlaması hakkındaki...

The Equator Principles are a set of voluntary social and environmental guidelines that apply to the majority of private commercial banks engaged in project finance, which is a method of financing often used to create large infrastructure projects. The Equator Principles provide ten standards to...