Mario Montalbetti y Ralph Bauer, Vietnam

Georg Bauer

Reply to Bauer and Goff.

TO THE EDITOR—We read with interest the letter by Bauer and colleagues commenting on the need for cost-justification of new diagnostic tests in the field of infectious diseases [1], such as the recently US Food and Drug Administration–approved T2Candida panel for diagnosis of candidemia [2]. Indeed, the new alternatives for disease diagnosis [3] contribute to the exponential rise of healthcare ...

Ralph Bergmann

An assumption commonly unchallenged in Social Media isthat its open nature leads to a representative view of the world. Thereare (at least) two issues with this assumption. The first issue is that suchrepresentativeness may be harmful and may contradict social principles,e.g. non-discrimination against women or minorities. The second issue isthat algorithms that work on such...

Christian Bauer ; Ronald B .

We study the optimal combination of corporate tax rate and tax base in a model of a small open economy with heterogeneous firms. We show that it is optimal for the small country’s government to effectively subsidize capital inputs by granting a tax allowance in excess of the true costs of capital. Economic integration reduces the optimal capital subsidy and drives low-productivity firms from th...

Ralph Adolphs

Ralph Adolphs is Bren Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California. He obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry and Master’s in Biology from Stanford University, and his PhD in neurobiology from Caltech working with Mark Konishi on the auditory system of the barn owl. His post-doc was with Antonio Damasio at the Universi...