Deductions Arising From Illegal Activities

Dubious Deductions from AGN Survey Data

The participants in this meeting are almost all carrying out the hard work of making many different types of AGN surveys. Since it’s so much easier to criticize other people’s work than to do actual work myself, I’ll just present some demurs regarding recent papers drawing conclusions from various AGN survey data. In particular I’ll mention some questionable interpretations of surveys of Seyfer...

Value of Intangibles Arising from R&D Activities

This paper develops an empirical approach using econometric techniques for panel data which aims to contribute to the reduction/elimination of the deviation between the book and market value of firms. Based on 20 of the firms with the largest number of patents granted between 1996 and 2006, the results show that: (i) the increase in the return on equity following from an increase in the share o...

National and International Policies to Control Illegal Forest Activities

Deductions from the Export Basket: Capabilities, Wealth and Trade∗

This paper re-explores the relation between a country’s level of wealth and the mix of products it exports. We argue that both are simultaneously determined by countries’ capabilities i.e. by countries’ productivity and quality levels for each good. Our theoretical setup has two features. (1) Some goods have fewer high-quality producers/countries than others i.e. there is Ricardian comparative ...

Deductions with Meaning

In this paper, we consider some of the problems that arise if automated reasoning methods are applied to natural language semantics. It turns that out that the problem of ambiguity has a strong impact on the feasibility of any theorem prover for computational semantics. We briefly investigate the different aspects of ambiguity and review some of the solutions that have been proposed to tackle t...