It is commonly believed that the visual system requires oculomotor information to perceive depth from binocular disparity. However, any effect of the oculomotor information on depth perception is too restricted to explain depth perception under natural viewing conditions. In this study, I...

This brief Response to Cathay Smith's Beware the Slender Man: Intellectual Property and Internet Folklore identifies how Professor Smith's article contributes to our understanding of the relationship between IP and creativity. Professor Smith conducted a granular case study of the process by...

The recent digitization of complete count census data is an extraordinary opportunity for social scientists to create large longitudinal datasets by linking individuals from one census to another or from other sources to the census. We evaluate different automated methods for record linkage,...

We study a non-parametric class of neoclassical trade models with global production networks. We characterize their properties in terms of sufficient statistics useful for growth and welfare accounting as well as for counterfactuals. We establish a formal duality between open and closed...

Uncertainty is a foundational aspect of politics and diplomacy. Critical elections, armed conflicts, ally/adversary behavior, explicit/implicit threats are fundamentally uncertain, yet core processes of statecraft, diplomacy and politics. That's why over centuries, diplomacy has grown into an...

This paper introduces a peer-to-peer electronic accounting system, as the current system sufferers from the inherent weakness of double-entry accounting, for example, a time gap problem between occurring and recording transactions, ignoring billions of individual's access to essential financial...

It is a triumph of technology and of economics that our computer chips are so universal. Countless applications are only possible because of the staggering variety of calculations that modern chips can compute. But, this was not always the case. Computers used to be specialized, doing only...