Good-government reform proposals like those offered by Professors Craig Lerner and Nelson Lund generally confront several difficulties. Details matter, but most reform proposals are understandably sketchy.1 The details ordinarily would be fleshed out as the proposal works its way through the process of enactment, but this process is difficult to navigate. The politics of good-government reforms...

Purpose Commonly used rent indices are based on average developments or expert opinions. Such often suffer from compositional biases low data coverage. The purpose of this paper is to overcome these challenges using the authors' approach. Design/methodology/approach authors construct a quality-adjusted index for office market in Oslo detailed 14,171 rental contracts. Findings show that can have...

Abstract In unsupervised machine learning, agreement between partitions is commonly assessed with so-called external validity indices. Researchers tend to use and report indices that quantify two for all clusters simultaneously. Commonly used examples are the Rand index adjusted index. Since these overall measures give a general notion of what going on, their values usually hard interpret. The ...

Background. Serum uric acid (SUA) was closely related to body metabolism. This study aimed investigate the relationship between adult weight-adjusted waist index (WWI) and SUA. Methods. In National Health Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 2011 2020, 6494 eligible participants aged ≥20 were included. The multivariate logistic regression model used test correlation WWI At same time, subg...

What are the respective effects of a unit increase in money demand on real exchange rate and current account, all else equal? The is known to appreciate, but account need not deteriorate, as canonical Marshall Lerner condition instead seems suggest. As this work presents, deteriorates by virtue appreciation due fall supply, equal, vice versa; it further specifies that improves rise demand, versa.

The orderly deregulation of planned electricity generation and consumption is an important measure for market reform in several countries (such as China), a reasonable proportion the total energy conducive to smooth transition from regulation mode mode. Under plan-market double-track mechanism (PMDM) implemented, modified linear bidding function companies (GCs) first proposed, unified clearing ...