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Robert Wo Crandall

In recent years, it has become increasingly fashionable to attribute a myriad 0f our economic and social difficulties to excessive government regulation. If we are to believe the rhetoric, government regulation is partly or largely to blame for soaring inflation, lagging growth in GNP, declining productivity growth, the decline in the value of the dollar, and even general reductions in the anim...

Poor (Wo)man’s Bootstrap∗

The bootstrap is a convenient tool for estimating standard errors of the parameters of complicated econometric models. Unfortunately, the fact that these models are complicated often makes the bootstrap extremely slow or even practically infeasible. This paper proposes an alternative to the bootstrap which is only based on estimation of one-dimensional parameters. The paper contains no difficul...

DYADIC PFW’S AND Wo-BASES

The rich structure of the set of dyadic PFW’s has been presented in [6]. As mentioned in [6, Remark 3.7], the subclass of the so called non-W0-frames with various levels of W0-linear independence (denoted by P0,+ in [6]) needs extra attention. The recent observation in [4] on W0-Schauder bases enables us to properly restructure this subclass (P0,+) and to show that it contains a wealth of examp...

Memory BIST

The Continuities of an East German Heimat: Gender and Technological Progress in Du bist min. Ein deutsches Tagebuch