This book develops new convex geometric methods for studying factorization and extensively generalizes positive bases in Euclidean space.

Abstract The elasticity of taxable income is a key parameter in tax policy analysis. To examine the large variation found literature and broad elasticities, I conduct comprehensive meta-regression analysis using information from 61 studies containing 1,720 estimates. My findings reveal that estimated elasticities are not immutable parameters. They correlated with contextual factors choice empir...

Through this paper, we have attempted to model the demand for di¤erent classes of antibiotics used for respiratory infections in outpatient care in Switzerland using a spatial version of the linear approximate Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) model. This model takes spatial dependency into account by means of spatial lags of antibiotic budget shares. We control for the health status of patient...