Dr. Bauer Replies

Dr. Andrade replies

C. Andrade in his letter published in the Indian Journal of Psychiatry Vol 38, No.2 Page 117, has suggested that non responsiveness to ECT should also be considered an additional pre-requisite for patients who are to receive clozapine. For the reference of the readers of Indian Journal of Psychiatry, I would like to mention the views of some of the foreign authors on this issue. The clinical re...

Georg Bauer

Reply to Bauer and Goff.

TO THE EDITOR—We read with interest the letter by Bauer and colleagues commenting on the need for cost-justification of new diagnostic tests in the field of infectious diseases [1], such as the recently US Food and Drug Administration–approved T2Candida panel for diagnosis of candidemia [2]. Indeed, the new alternatives for disease diagnosis [3] contribute to the exponential rise of healthcare ...

Ricochets & Replies

Disturbingly, the strategy laid out in Dr. B. T. Cesul’s article “A Global Space Control Strategy” (November–December 2014) essentially is a throwback to the “space dominance” policies and ambitions set out by the administration of President George W. Bush, following from the 2001 Rumsfeld Space Commission report. Furthermore, the strategy it espouses is just as unobtainable and undesirable now...

Christian Bauer ; Ronald B .

We study the optimal combination of corporate tax rate and tax base in a model of a small open economy with heterogeneous firms. We show that it is optimal for the small country’s government to effectively subsidize capital inputs by granting a tax allowance in excess of the true costs of capital. Economic integration reduces the optimal capital subsidy and drives low-productivity firms from th...