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Comparing applied general equilibrium and econometric estimates of the effect of an environmental policy shock
No full textThis file explains the programs and datasets used in the following paper:
Jared C. Carbone, Nicolas Rivers, Akio Yamazaki, and Hidemichi Yonezawa
"Comparing applied general equilibrium and econometric estimates of the
effect of an environmental policy shock," forthcoming in Journal of the
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
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There are three folders:
bc_cge.zip
replication_table2_4_5_C1
replication_figures_table3
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CGE Approach
bc_cge.zip contains the CGE model and its results including the benchmark data in Table 1 and the results of the central scenario and sensitivity analysis in Figure 6, 7 and 8, and the further details about the CGE model's replication can be found in the readme.txt within the zip file.
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Econometric Approach
replication_table2_4_5_C1 contains the program and multiple datasets to generate Table 2, 4, 5, and C.1, explained in detail below.
Data
Original data is from Yamazaki (2017) -- comes from CANSIM
Our data is "Carbone_et_al.dta"
Program
Run Carbone_et_al_JAERE.do file for replication of Table 2, 4, 5, and C.1.
This do file also merge other datasets for more control variables, such as oil price, US unemployment rate, population, and trade index. The data on these variables are obtained from these sources listed below.
EIA oil price (crude oil -- WTI)
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pri_spt_s1_a.htm
US unemployment from Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey (LNS14000000)
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
Population data is from Statistics Canada's Table 17-10-0005-01 (formerly CANSIM 051-0001)
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1710000501
World trade index (Export volume relative to 1913)
https://ourworldindata.org/trade-and-globalization
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replication_figures_table3 contains programs and datasets required to generate all the figures and Table 3. R software is used to generate them.
TABLE3.R is for Table 3
FIGURE1.R is for Figure 1
FIGURE2.R is for Figure 2
FIGURE3.R is for Figure 3
FIGURE4_5.R is for Figure 4 and 5
FIGURE6_7.R is for Figure 6 and 7
FIGURE8.R is for Figure 8
FIGUREC1.R is for Figure C.1
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Questions regarding this file and any programs and datasets pertains to the econometric approach should be directed to Akio Yamazaki, [email protected]
Response to: The association between hypertension and rotator cuff disease: a spurious result?
No full textResponse to: The association between hypertension and rotator cuff disease: a spurious result?
Dear editor,
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to answer to letter to the Editor JSES-D-12-00464. As mentioned by the author of this letter, it is well known that the incidence of rotator cuff tears increases with age and that a large proportion of tears is completely asymptomatic4,5,6. The population prevalence of full thickness rotator cuff tears is 22.2% in females of age 60-83 years and 47% of these tears are completely asymptomatic3. The author affirms that the failure to consider the presence of asymptomatic cuff tears in the control group could fully account for the authors observation of an association between hypertension and rotator cuff tears. If we hypothetically assume that we had a plausible prevalence in the control group of asymptomatic cuff tears of 22.2%,3 it will not not affect the result that in the cuff tear patient group the prevalence of hypertension is significantly higher, but, on the contrary, it makes it more evident.
In our article, we selected 201 patients negative for shoulder pathologies because shoulder painless2 and because negative to clinical tests for cuff tears. Of course, as the author state, there is no radiological assessment of their rotator cuff.2 On the other side, a patient affected by a cuff tear (symptomatic or asymptomatic) usually does not have normal shoulder external or internal rotation strength or does have a negative external rotation lag sign.1 In addition, the main result of our study is that there is an association between size of cuff tear and hypertension and, thus, this result is not affected by eventual bias of selection of the control group, being this result calculated only in the study group (patients who underwent arthroscopic cuff repair).
Best personal regards,
Prof. Stefano Gumina (MD, PhD)
References
1)Castoldi F, Blonna D, Hertel R. External rotation lag sign revisited: Accuracy for
diagnosis of full thickness supraspinatus tear. J Shoulder Elbow Surg 2009; 18: 529-534.
2)Gumina S, Arceri V, Carbone S, Albino P, Passaretti D, Campagna V, Fagnani C, Postacchini F. The association between arterial hypertension and rotator cuff tear: the influence on rotator cuff tear sizes. J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 2012 Jun 27. doi: 10.1016/j.jse.2012.05.023
3) Oag HCL, Daines MD, Nichols AS, Arden NK, Carr AJ. The association between rotator cuff tears, shoulder pain and activities of daily living: Normal population data. Presented at BESS (British Shoulder and Elbow Society) 2012 and awaiting publication in Proceedings of BESS.
4) Yamaguchi K, Ditsios K, Middleton WD, Hildebolt CF, Galatz LM, Teefey SA. The demographic and morphological features of rotator cuff disease. A comparison of asymptomatic and symptomatic shoulders. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2006; 88: 1699-1704. doi:10.2106/JBJS.E.00835
5) Yamamoto A, Takagishi K, Kobayashi T, Shitara H, Osawa T. Factors involved in the presence of symptoms associated with rotator cuff tears: a comparison of asymptomatic and symptomatic rotator cuff tears in the general population. J Shoulder Elbow Surg 2011; 20:1133-1137. doi:10.1016/j.jse.2011.01.011
6) Yamamoto A, Takagishi K, Osawa T, Yanagawa T, Nakajima D, Shitara H, Kobayashi T. Prevalence and risk factors of a rotator cuff tear in the general population. J Shoulder Elbow Surg 2010; 19: 116-20. doi:10.1016/j.jse.2009.04.00
Diritto di famiglia e Unione europea
No full textThe book is edited by Ilaria Queirolo and Sergio Maria Carbone, that collected and co-ordinated the contributions written by many professors and researchers who devoted their studies to the topic of family relationships within the European Union. To this purpose, the book considers all the aspects related to family law that have been touched by European Community and European Union legislation (i.e: Part I: Family in the perspective of the free movement of persons; Part II: Family in the perspective of the protection of fundamental rights; Part III: The dissolution of marriage in the Brussels II (bis) Regulation; Part IV: The discipline of parental responsibility; Part V: Maintenance obligations), giving a critical reconstruction of the legal framework and a complex view to the critical issues arising from it.
In this context Ilaria Queirolo is also the author of two chapters of the book: the first one (Premise), written together with prof. Carbone, underlines the legal basis of the European intervention in the field of family law, therefore giving a solid structure to the book by the identification of a common thread to all other contributions. The second chapter written by the Author (Chapter VIII) is precisely devoted to the critical analysis of the 2006 Commission proposal of amendment of Regulation 2201/2003 and considers the impact and the relapses that such amendments would entail for the Italian discipline. To this purpose, particular attention is given to the impact of introducing the relevance of parties’ autonomy in the field of family law, with reference to both jurisdiction and applicable law
“Concrete Poetry Remediated: the Body, the Algorithm and the Word”
No full textIt is a shared opinion that electronic literature was born in the orbit of concrete poetry in the late
50s. In 1954 Eugen Gomringer says “the new poem is simple and can be perceived visually as a
whole as well as in its parts. It becomes an object to be both seen and used; an object containing
thought but made concrete through play-activity, its concern is with brevity and conciseness. It is
memorable and imprints itself upon the mind as a picture. Its objective element of play is useful to
modern man, whom the poet helps through his special gift for this kind of play-activity. (...) The
constellation is an arrangement, and at the same time a play-area of fixed dimensions. The
constellation is ordered by the plot. He determines the play-area, the fields or force and suggests its
possibilities. The reader, the new reader, grasps the idea of play, and joins in. (...) the Constellation
is an invitation. [E. Gomringer, From Line to Consellation]
The purpose of this presentation is to investigate how some of the main features of concrete poetry
are radicalised and remediated in digital environment. As it happened to concrete poetry in the 20th
c., a form of writing made for a large audience and the exploitation of new ways to communicate
are essential reasons behind electronic literature, which is nowadays conceived as a global
experimentation in poetry as well as in storytelling. Besides, the visual dislocation of the text
beyond the white page of the book, and the emphasis on the opacity and materiality of the word
might at first sight lead to the “topographical writing” that David J. Bolter has theorized in order to
describe hypertext. Differently, I would rather advocate a remediation based on a strong connection
between the text, seen as “constellation and an invitation”, and the body of the beholder. It often
happens that the reader’s body becomes the reading surface of the text and a necessary means to
create a participative experience, which corresponds to the construction of the narrative/poetic text
and its meaning.
Two are the main aspects to be discussed: 1. just like the reproducibility of the product (Walter
Benjamin) makes the consumer’s behaviour become an essential part of the work of art, in
electronic literature a machine-reader-algorithm-author cybernetic feedback-loop is vital to create
the aesthetic experience; 2. the opacity of the word becomes a multi-perceptive stream of linguistic
signs that the reader needs to recognize per se before decoding.
The literary works I intend to analyse are: the sculptural poetry Text Rain by Camille Utterback, the
physio-cybertext The Breathing Wall by Kate Pullinger, Stefan Schemat and babel, and an example
of literary work realized in the three-dimensional space of the virtual cave. All these works imply a
“programmed improvisation”, that is a sensual, conceptual and communicative answer to the
machine. As for concrete poetry, electronic literature leads to a powerful and immediate playful
mechanism which makes many detractors say that these works are comparable to videogames. My
questions are: what do we expect from a literary text in digital environment? Why and how is it
produced? What is the role played by the author? Even more important: what is the relationship
between algorithm (computer programming) and poetics? How is the reading experience shaped by
the machine code? What is the process of reading in electronic environment
Economic growth and carbon taxes
No full textDeficit reduction and carbon taxes: Budgetary, economic, and distributional impacts / Jared Carbone, Richard D. Morgenstern, Roberton C. Williams III, Dallas Burtraw. Resources for the Future, Aug. 2013, 30 p. (RFF report) http://www.rff.org/RFF/Documents/RFF-Rpt-Carbone.etal.CarbonTaxes.pdf Executive summary : This report looks at both the efficiency and distributional implications of introducing carbon dioxide (CO2) taxes, either as part of revenue-neutral tax reform or as one of a series..
Economic growth and carbon taxes
No full textDeficit reduction and carbon taxes: Budgetary, economic, and distributional impacts / Jared Carbone, Richard D. Morgenstern, Roberton C. Williams III, Dallas Burtraw. Resources for the Future, Aug. 2013, 30 p. (RFF report) http://www.rff.org/RFF/Documents/RFF-Rpt-Carbone.etal.CarbonTaxes.pdf Executive summary : This report looks at both the efficiency and distributional implications of introducing carbon dioxide (CO2) taxes, either as part of revenue-neutral tax reform or as one of a series..
Measurement of the ratio of prompt χ c to J / ψ production in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV
No full textThe prompt production of charmonium χ c and J / ψ states is studied in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 7 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. The χ c and J / ψ mesons are identified through their decays χ c → J / ψ γ and J / ψ → μ + μ - using 36 pb - 1 of data collected by the LHCb detector in 2010. The ratio of the prompt production cross-sections for χ c and J / ψ, σ (χ c → J / ψ γ) / σ (J / ψ), is determined as a function of the J / ψ transverse momentum in the range 2 < p T J / ψ < 15 GeV / c. The results are in excellent agreement with next-to-leading order non-relativistic expectations and show a significant discrepancy compared with the colour singlet model prediction at leading order, especially in the low p T J / ψ region
Anisotropy of Alfvénic Turbulence in the Solar Wind and Numerical Simulations
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The Impacts of Unilateral Climate Policy on Competitiveness: Evidence From Computable General Equilibrium Models
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