6 papers
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…
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…
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…
Gradient Boosting for Spatial Regression Models with Autoregressive Disturbances
Michael Balzer
Researchers in urban and regional studies increasingly deal with spatial data that reflects geographic location and spatial relationships. As a framework for dealing with the uniqu…
Multi-stage Group Testing with (r,s)-regular design Algorithms
Michael Balzer
In industrial engineering and manufacturing, quality control is an essential part of the production process of a product. To ensure proper functionality of a manufactured good, rig…
Mitigating Consequences of Prestige in Citations of Publications
Michael Balzer, Adhen Benlahlou
For many public research organizations, funding creation of science and maximizing scientific output is of central interest. Typically, when evaluating scientific production for fu…