Blanchard (1989b) proposed that there are two categorically distinct types of transsexual women (male-to-female transsexuals) and this typology isbasedonone of these types havingsexualattractiontooneselfasawoman.Helabeledthis typeofsexual attraction autogynephilia. Blanchard proposed that those who do not experience autogynephilia are sexually attracted only to men (androphilic) and those who e...

We describe a methodology that integrates the narrative approach to the identification of macroeconomic shocks into existing structural VAR settings while allowing for measurement error in the narrative measures of the shocks of interest. We apply our methodology to the fiscal VAR setup of Blanchard and Perotti (2002) and make use of the tax shocks constructed by Romer and Romer (2009). We find...

Blanchard et al. (2009) demonstrated that hebephilia is a genuine sexual preference, but then proposed, without argument or evidence, that it should be designated as a mental disorder in the DSM-5. A series of Letters-to-the-Editor criticized this proposal as a non sequitur. Blanchard (2009), in rebuttal, reaffirmed his position, but without adequately addressing some central criticisms. In thi...

This paper considers sufficient conditions for sparse recovery in the sparse multiple measurement vector (MMV) problem for some recently proposed rank aware greedy algorithms. Specifically we consider the compressed sensing framework with random measurement matrices and show that the rank of the measurement matrix in the sparse MMV problem allows such algorithms to reduce the effect of the log ...

The immune system is composed of a complex network of different cell types protecting the body against various possible threats. Among these cells are T-helper (Th) cells type 1 (Th1) and type 2 (Th2), as well as T regulatory (Treg) cells. Th1 and Th2 are supposed to be in balance with each other, while Tregs regulate the immune response, by halting it when the desired effect, i.e. destroying t...

In this paper I estimate a SVAR model to study the transmission of UK shocks to the Irish economy over the period 1922-1979, using annual time series for CPI inflation and output growth. UK aggregate demand and supply shocks have large and significant impacts on Irish inflation, but smaller impacts on Irish real GDP growth. A historical decomposition indicates that UK aggregate demand shocks pl...