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Correlation between white matter microstructure and executive functions suggests early developmental influence on long fibre tracts in preterm born adolescents
Main objectives: Executive functions are frequently a weakness in children born preterm. We examined associations of executive functions and general cognitive abilities with brain structure in preterm born adolescents who were born with appropriate weight for gestational age and who have no radiological signs of preterm brain injury on neuroimaging.
Methods: The Stockholm...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2017
Targeted undersmoothing
This paper proposes a post-model selection inference procedure, called targeted undersmoothing, designed to construct uniformly valid confidence sets for a broad class of functionals of sparse high-dimensional statistical models. These include dense functionals, which may potentially depend on all elements of an unknown high-dimensional parameter. The proposed confidence sets are...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2017
Schweizer Verhältnis zu Europa wird nicht einfacher
Emmanuel Macron wird der neue Präsident Frankreichs. Finanzprofessor Mathias Hoffmann erklärt, was das für die Schweizer Wirtschaft bedeutet.
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 09/05/2017
Diffusion of behavior in dynamic networks
We analyze binary choice models in communication networks, in which both, the formation of links in the network as well as the action choices are endogenous. We provide a complete characterization of the equilibrium action choices and networks, where agents choose their strategies – actions and links – according to a perturbed best response update rule. We show that a...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/05/2017
An experimental test of the Anscombe-Aumann Monotonicity axiom
Most models of ambiguity aversion satisfy Anscombe-Aumann’s Monotonicity axiom. Monotonicity imposes separability of preferences across events that occur with unknown probability. We construct a test of Monotonicity by modifying the Allais paradox to a setting with both subjective and objective uncertainty. Two experimental studies are conducted: while study 1 uses U.S. online...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/05/2017
Testing-Based Forward Model Selection
This paper defines and studies a variable selection procedure called Testing-Based Forward Model Selection. The procedure inductively selects covariates which increase predictive accuracy into a working statistical regression model until a stopping criterion is met. The stopping criteria and selection criteria are defined using statistical hypothesis tests. The paper explicitly...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/05/2017
Sharp convergence rates for forward regression in high-dimensional sparse linear models
Forward regression is a statistical model selection and estimation procedure which inductively selects covariates that add predictive power into a working statistical regression model. Once a model is selected, unknown regression parameters are estimated by least squares. This paper analyzes forward regression in high-dimensional sparse linear models. Probabilistic bounds for...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/05/2017
Monotone equilibria in signalling games
We study the monotonicity of sender’s equilibrium strategy with respect to her type in signalling games. We use counterexamples to show that when the sender’s payoff is non-separable, the Spence-Mirrlees condition cannot rule out equilibria in which the sender uses non-monotone strategies. These equilibria can survive standard refinements as incentives are strict and the sender plays...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/05/2017
Concentrating on the fall of the labor share
The recent fall of labor's share of GDP in numerous countries is well-documented, but its causes are poorly understood. We sketch a "superstar firm" model where industries are increasingly characterized by "winner take most" competition, leading a small number of highly profitable (and low labor share) firms to command growing market share. Building on Autor...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/05/2017
Functional connectivity between prefrontal and parietal cortex drives visuo-spatial attention shifts
It is well established that the frontal eye-fields (FEF) in the dorsal attention network (DAN) guide top-down selective attention. In addition, converging evidence implies a causal role for the FEF in attention shifting, which is also known to recruit the ventral attention network (VAN) and fronto-striatal regions. To investigate the causal influence of the FEF as (part of) a central...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/05/2017
Spillover effects of institutions on cooperative behavior, preferences, and beliefs
Institutions are an important means for fostering prosocial behaviors, but in many contexts their scope is limited and they govern only a subset of all socially desirable acts. We study experimentally how the presence and nature of an institution that enforces prosocial behavior in one domain affects behavior in a similar but unregulated domain. Groups play two identical public good...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/05/2017
Über Roger Federers Millionen regt sich niemand auf
Laut Ernst Fehr können Millionen-Saläre gerechtfertigt sein - aber viele Firmen berechnen Manager-Vergütungen falsch.
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 30/04/2017
A "fractal" solution to the chopstick auction
This paper constructs a novel equilibrium in the chopstick auction of Szentes and Rosenthal (Games and Economic Behavior, 2003a, 2003b). In contrast to the existing solution, the identified equilibrium strategy allows a simple and intuitive characterization. Moreover, its best-response set has the same Hausdorff dimension as its support, which may be seen as a robustness property....
Institution partenaire
English / 01/04/2017
Large dynamic covariance matrices
Second moments of asset returns are important for risk management and portfolio selection. The problem of estimating second moments can be approached from two angles: time series and the cross-section. In time series, the key is to account for conditional heteroskedasticity; a favored model is Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC), derived from the ARCH/GARCH family started by Engle...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/04/2017
On the convergence of logit-response to (strict) Nash equilibria
We show that the logit-response dynamics converges to a subset of (strict) Nash equilibria for any weakly acyclic, N-player normal form game. The result holds independently of whether revision opportunities arise as in asynchronous learning or in other ways, as long as the dynamics is regular. Our analysis generalizes and organizes recent convergence results in the literature....
Institution partenaire
English / 01/04/2017
Government distortion in independently owned media: evidence from U.S. Cold War news coverage of human rights
This study provides evidence of government distortion of news coverage among independently owned media outlets in a democratic regime. It uses data from 1946 to 2010 and documents that U.S. news coverage of human rights abuses committed by foreign governments was associated with membership on the United Nations Security Council and the degree of political alliance with the United...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/04/2017
Altered reward anticipation: Potential explanation for weight gain in schizophrenia?
Obesity and weight gain are severe complications of mental illness, especially schizophrenia. They result from changes in lifestyle and nutrition, side effects of medication and other, less well-understood factors. Recent studies suggest that obesity and weight gain are linked to psychopathology. Specifically, severe psychopathology is associated with greater weight dysregulation,...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/04/2017
"Mafia Inc.": when godfathers become entrepreneurs
We study the investment of criminal organizations in the legal economy. We focus on Italy, a country historically plagued by a conspicuous presence of mafia-type organizations. By using the exogenous credit contraction imposed by the 2007 financial crisis we highlight how the consequences for newly established enterprises have been less severe in areas with organized crime. Although...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/04/2017
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