Forms of convenience voting, including voting-by-mail (VBM), provide citizens the opportunity to cast ballots without being exposed to the information revealed in the final weeks leading up to Election Day. This creates the possibility that informational differences will cause VBM and polling place voters to vote differently. We test this hypothesis by looking at whether the increased use of VB...

Biological interactions such as those between genes and proteins are complex and require intricate OWL models. However, direct links between biological entities can support search and data integration. In this paper we introduce linksets of convenience that capture these direct links. We show the provenance statements required to track the derivation of such linksets; linking them back to the f...

Commodity prices are often thought to have in‡ationary consequences but formal statistical evidence in support of this perception has been far from robust. In this paper, we provide evidence that the two leading principal components in a panel of 23 commodity convenience yields have statistically and quantitatively important predictive power for in‡ation even after controlling for unemployment ...

This paper provides evidence that the two leading principal components in a panel of 23 commodity convenience yields have statistically and quantitatively important predictive power for inflation even after controlling for unemployment gap and oil prices. The results hold up in out-of-sample forecasts, across forecast horizons, and across G7 countries. The convenience yields also explain commod...

As the energy markets continue to evolve, valuation of energy-linked assets has been one of the focal topics of recent finance research. One of the most popular choices for describing asset movements is a class of the so-called ”convenience yield models”. Such models introduce a new unobserved quantity related to physical ownership of the asset. In turn, convenience yield models can be broadly ...