Cell interactome: Good neighbors or bad neighbors

Good Markets Make Bad Neighbors

In their manuscript, Corsaro, Hunt, Kroovand Hipple, and McGarrell (2012, this issue) provide a valuable contribution to the literature regarding focused deterrence with an econometric evaluation of the High Point Drug Market Intervention (DMI). By employing a difference-in-difference Poisson panel regression framework, as well as group-based trajectory analyses, these authors examine the High ...

Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father’s German Village

Many years ago Elie Wiesel observed: “The mystery of goodness far exceeds the mystery of evil.” Mimi Schwartz, the American-born daughter of a refugee father from the village of Benheim (not its real name), Germany, has written an evocative memoir that explores the goodness of certain of the village’s Christians during the Holocaust. She seeks answers to two related questions: what accounted fo...

Bad Neighbors: Failed States and Their Consequences

Do Small Governments Make Bad Neighbors

The 'Race to the Bottom' theory suggests that local governments might be reluctant to adopt policies that are helpful towards poorer citizens out of fear of attracting poorer residents from nearby municipalities. Likewise, policies that are helpful to the poor may be costly and can lead to an increase in taxes that may drive away wealthier residents. Municipalities in which a majority of citize...

Water filling may not good neighbors make

Abstract— Consider a wireless system with multiple and independent user-base pairings over some region. Each user tries to greedily optimize its performance, and eventually a simultaneous water-filling fixed point is reached. Here we seek to analytically understand properties of different water-filling fixed points. In so doing we show that water-filling alone does not generally result in optim...