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stat.CO2026
Retrospective Economic Evaluation of Group Testing in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Michael Balzer, Kainat Khowaja, Christiane Fuchs
Surveillance of diseases in a pandemic is an important part of public health policy. Diagnostic testing at the individual level is often infeasible due to resource constraints. To…
stat.ME2026
Gradient Boosting for Spatial Panel Models with Random and Fixed Effects
Michael Balzer, Adhen Benlahlou
Due to the increase in data availability in urban and regional studies, various spatial panel models have emerged to model spatial panel data, which exhibit spatial patterns and sp…
econ.GN2026
Strategic Interactions in Science and Technology Networks: Substitutes or Complements?
Michael Balzer, Adhen Benlahlou
This paper develops a theory of scientific and technological peer effects to study how individuals' productivity responds to the behavior and network positions of their collaborato…