Robustness is a fledgling literature in Macro. The primary concern of robust analysis is that we don’t know the exact model of the economy and this model uncertainty has policy ... heavy weight to worse-case scenarios. Ellison and Sargent found a pretty neat application of robustness. The Fed staff are a bunch of academics who believe they know the true model of the economy. They use the &# ...

... Charity brand) on a pedestrian crossing in Westminster so we had a chat on the topic de jour; top salaries. She was pleased to see that I was defending charity CEOs with my usual " Bubbian robustness". I thought a rather splendid compliment! Earlier I had spoken to The Times for an interview on said topic. I gave no quarter. Indeed I am only surprised that Unite (or as my friend Robin ...

David Swanson November 1 2009 Imagine public elections in which 2 percent are allowed to vote and Diebold gets to nominate the candidates. Or public parks with guest lists of 2 percent of the public, and private prisons for anyone else who tries to enter. Or how about public schools serving 2 percent of children with fully televised lessons broken up by commercials promoting illiteracy? ...

David Swanson: Why is a bill better than no bill? Why is a bill that funds absolutely useless parasites like health insurance companies at the expense of our grandchildren's unearned pay better than nothing? Why -- when blocking a bill would almost guarantee a better debate in round 2 -- is it more important to pass the bill and close off the opportunity for valuable reform? Is there nothing ...

... MA. CSDI Faculty: Anderies, John M. (2006) Robustness, Institutions, and Large-Scale Change in Social-Ecological Systems ... and Elinor Ostrom (2004) A Framework to Analyze the Robustness of Socio-Ecological Systems from an Institutional Perspective. Ecology ... A., John M. Anderies and Elinor Ostrom (2007) Robustness of Social-Ecological Systems of Spatial and Temporal Variability. ...

... rigorous, computer-based tools for the assessment of network performance and efficiency, along with robustness and vulnerability analysis. The result is a thorough exploration that promotes an understanding of ... and different critical networks is provided, which demonstrates how the new network measures and robustness indices can be applied to different supply chain, financial, and dynamic networks ...