Theorizing subsidiarity: A Rejoinder to Gareth Davies

A Rejoinder to Iivari (2016)

Juhani Ivari’s (2016) suggestions have merit as incremental steps that are directed towards fixing parts of a broken system—a system in which it often takes six to eight months to get an editorial decision on a paper, in which papers are rejected after five years and five rounds of reviews, and in which radically new ideas struggle to be published. Iivari’s suggestions all require the support o...

Rejoinder to Gordon Tullock

Rejoinder: Response to Sobel*

Sobel claims to disagree with many of the points made in my paper. He also claims that much if not all of what I say is already in the statistical treatment effect literature. He treats my Section 4 as a literature review rather than an illustration of the basic principles made in Sections 1–3 of the paper, as I intended it to be. In joint work with Edward Vytlacil, I present a comprehensive li...

Rejoinder to Carlo Ratti

In this rejoinder, we answer questions about space syntax raised in Carlo Ratti's paper ``Urban texture and space syntax: some inconsistencies'', and discuss theoretical assumptions underlying some of his criticisms. DOI:10.1068/b3019a

Response to Hartwig and Davies

and indeed many of the other analyses reported in our paper do not suffer from potential bias due to weak instruments. Hartwig and Davies did, however, suggest that we could have used estimates from an external source to obtain less biased results in our MR-Egger analyses. Whereas we agree that this would be good practice in most situations, we do not feel that it would have been appropriate in...