The paper studies the influence of Gordon Tullock (1967) and the rent-seeking literature more generally on the study of corruption. The theoretical corruption literature with its emphasis on principal-agent relationships within government and rent creation by corruption politicians has largely, but not entirely, overlooked that contestable rents encourage unproductive use of real resources in s...

For a few years and since the release of the expression on Medline in 1992 by Gordon Guyatt et al., interest in the Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) had skyrocketed and had induced a kind of globalization of its teaching. Undoubtedly, we live in the era of EBM in which scientific knowledge and research works are classified in a pyramid hierarchy according to their levels of evidence. At the top of...

Author(s): Mouratidis, Haralambos., Philip, Ian., Manson, Gordon. Article Title: A Novel Agent-Based System to Support the Single Assessment Process of Older People Year of publication: 2003 Citation: Mouratidis, H., Philp, I., Manson, G. (2003) ‘A Novel Agent-Based System to Support the Single Assessment Process of Older People’ Health Informatics Journal 9 (3) 149-162 Link to published versio...

Background:  The objective of the study was to appraise the total dollar value of human life losses (TDVHL) associated with COVID-19 in Canada. Methods: The net output approach (also known as human capital approach) was applied in the dollar valuation of the 6,062 human life losses associated with COVID-19 in Canada as of 23 May 2020. The economic model was rerun five times: (a) using the nati...

This paper investigates the impact of store location, a retailer's most costly and long-term marketing mix decision, on retailer revenues. We estimate models of consumer spending at the leading packaged goods retailers in a metropolitan market based on two dimensions of retail location: (i) proximity to consumers, i.e., travel times, and (ii) proximity to other stores, i.e., agglomeration. Both...

The spline-based models are widely used in practice to estimate the term structure of interest rates from a set of observed coupon-bond prices. The most popular method can be traced back to McCulloch (1971). Assuming that the price of a bond is equal to the present value of its future coupon payments and redemption, cash flows are regressed on a set of basis functions to estimate discount funct...