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Tommaso Nannicini - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Trade Openness and Growth: Pursuing Empirical Glasnost
IMF Staff Papers, 2009Co-Authors: Andreas Billmeier, Tommaso NanniciniAbstract:Studies of the impact of trade openness on growth are based either on cross-country analysis—which lacks transparency—or case studies—which lack statistical rigor. This paper applies a transparent econometric method drawn from the treatment evaluation literature (matching estimators) to make the comparison between treated (that is, open) and control (that is, closed) countries explicit while remaining within a statistical framework. Matching estimators highlight that common cross-country evidence is based on rather far-fetched country comparisons, which stem from the lack of common support of treated and control countries in the covariate space. The paper therefore advocates paying more attention to appropriate sample restriction in cross-country macro research.
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online appendix for trade openness and growth pursuing empirical Glasnost
2008Co-Authors: Andreas Billmeier, Tommaso NanniciniAbstract:This online appendix complements the paper: Billmeier and Nannicini (2008), “Trade Openness and Growth: Pursuing Empirical Glasnost”, available under Research on the web site www.tommasonannicini.eu. It contains the tables with the country matches underlying the matching estimates reported and discussed in the paper.
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trade openness and growth pursuing empirical Glasnost
IMF Working Papers, 2007Co-Authors: Andreas Billmeier, Tommaso NanniciniAbstract:Studies of the impact of trade openness on growth are based either on cross-country analysis-which lacks transparency-or case studies-which lack statistical rigor. We apply transparent econometric methods drawn from the treatment evaluation literature to make the comparison between treated (i.e., open) and control (i.e., closed) countries explicit while remaining within a unified statistical framework. First, matching estimators highlight the rather far-fetched country comparisons underlying common cross-country results. When appropriately restricting the sample, we confirm a positive and significant effect of openness on growth. Second, we apply synthetic control methods-which account for endogeneity due to unobservable heterogeneity-to countries that liberalized their trade regime and we show that trade liberalization has often had a positive effect on growth.
Stefan Saroiu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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NSDI - Glasnost: enabling end users to detect traffic differentiation
2010Co-Authors: Marcel Dischinger, Massimiliano Marcon, Ratul Mahajan, Krishna P. Gummadi, Saikat Guha, Stefan SaroiuAbstract:Holding residential ISPs to their contractual or legal obligations of "unlimited service" or "network neutrality" is hard because their traffic management policies are opaque to end users and governmental regulatory agencies. We have built and deployed Glasnost, a system that improves network transparency by enabling ordinary Internet users to detect whether their ISPs are differentiating between flows of specific applications. We identify three key challenges in designing such a system: (a) to attract many users, the system must have low barrier of use and generate results in a timely manner, (b) the results must be robust to measurement noise and avoid false accusations of differentiation, which can adversely affect ISPs' reputation and business, (c) the system must include mechanisms to keep it up-to-date with the continuously changing differentiation policies of ISPs worldwide. We describe how Glasnost addresses each of these challenges. Glasnost has been operational for over a year. More than 350,000 users from over 5,800 ISPs worldwide have used Glasnost to detect differentiation, validating many of our design choices. We show how data from individual Glasnost users can be aggregated to provide regulators and monitors with useful information on ISP-wide deployment of various differentiation policies.
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Glasnost : Enabling End Users to Detect Traffic Differentiation
Design, 2010Co-Authors: Marcel Dischinger, Massimiliano Marcon, Subhendu Guha, Ratul Mahajan, Krishna P. Gummadi, Stefan SaroiuAbstract:Holding residential ISPs to their contractual or legal obligations of unlimited service or network neutrality is hard because their traffic management policies are opaque to end users and governmental regulatory agencies. We have built and deployed Glasnost, a system that improves network transparency by enabling ordinary Internet users to detect whether their ISPs are differentiating between flows of specific applications. We identify three key challenges in designing such a system: (a) to attract many users, the system must have low barrier of use and generate results in a timely manner, (b) the results must be robust to measurement noise and avoid false accusations of differentiation, which can adversely affect ISPs reputation and business, (c) the system must include mechanisms to keep it up-to-date with the continuously changing differentiation policies of ISPs worldwide. We describe how Glasnost addresses each of these challenges. Glasnost has been operational for over a year. More than 350,000 users from over 5,800 ISPs worldwide have used Glasnost to detect differentiation, validating many of our design choices. We show how data from individual Glasnost users can be aggregated to provide regulators and monitors with useful information on ISP-wide deployment of various differentiation policies. 1
Andreas Billmeier - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Trade Openness and Growth: Pursuing Empirical Glasnost
IMF Staff Papers, 2009Co-Authors: Andreas Billmeier, Tommaso NanniciniAbstract:Studies of the impact of trade openness on growth are based either on cross-country analysis—which lacks transparency—or case studies—which lack statistical rigor. This paper applies a transparent econometric method drawn from the treatment evaluation literature (matching estimators) to make the comparison between treated (that is, open) and control (that is, closed) countries explicit while remaining within a statistical framework. Matching estimators highlight that common cross-country evidence is based on rather far-fetched country comparisons, which stem from the lack of common support of treated and control countries in the covariate space. The paper therefore advocates paying more attention to appropriate sample restriction in cross-country macro research.
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online appendix for trade openness and growth pursuing empirical Glasnost
2008Co-Authors: Andreas Billmeier, Tommaso NanniciniAbstract:This online appendix complements the paper: Billmeier and Nannicini (2008), “Trade Openness and Growth: Pursuing Empirical Glasnost”, available under Research on the web site www.tommasonannicini.eu. It contains the tables with the country matches underlying the matching estimates reported and discussed in the paper.
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trade openness and growth pursuing empirical Glasnost
IMF Working Papers, 2007Co-Authors: Andreas Billmeier, Tommaso NanniciniAbstract:Studies of the impact of trade openness on growth are based either on cross-country analysis-which lacks transparency-or case studies-which lack statistical rigor. We apply transparent econometric methods drawn from the treatment evaluation literature to make the comparison between treated (i.e., open) and control (i.e., closed) countries explicit while remaining within a unified statistical framework. First, matching estimators highlight the rather far-fetched country comparisons underlying common cross-country results. When appropriately restricting the sample, we confirm a positive and significant effect of openness on growth. Second, we apply synthetic control methods-which account for endogeneity due to unobservable heterogeneity-to countries that liberalized their trade regime and we show that trade liberalization has often had a positive effect on growth.
Marcel Dischinger - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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NSDI - Glasnost: enabling end users to detect traffic differentiation
2010Co-Authors: Marcel Dischinger, Massimiliano Marcon, Ratul Mahajan, Krishna P. Gummadi, Saikat Guha, Stefan SaroiuAbstract:Holding residential ISPs to their contractual or legal obligations of "unlimited service" or "network neutrality" is hard because their traffic management policies are opaque to end users and governmental regulatory agencies. We have built and deployed Glasnost, a system that improves network transparency by enabling ordinary Internet users to detect whether their ISPs are differentiating between flows of specific applications. We identify three key challenges in designing such a system: (a) to attract many users, the system must have low barrier of use and generate results in a timely manner, (b) the results must be robust to measurement noise and avoid false accusations of differentiation, which can adversely affect ISPs' reputation and business, (c) the system must include mechanisms to keep it up-to-date with the continuously changing differentiation policies of ISPs worldwide. We describe how Glasnost addresses each of these challenges. Glasnost has been operational for over a year. More than 350,000 users from over 5,800 ISPs worldwide have used Glasnost to detect differentiation, validating many of our design choices. We show how data from individual Glasnost users can be aggregated to provide regulators and monitors with useful information on ISP-wide deployment of various differentiation policies.
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Glasnost : Enabling End Users to Detect Traffic Differentiation
Design, 2010Co-Authors: Marcel Dischinger, Massimiliano Marcon, Subhendu Guha, Ratul Mahajan, Krishna P. Gummadi, Stefan SaroiuAbstract:Holding residential ISPs to their contractual or legal obligations of unlimited service or network neutrality is hard because their traffic management policies are opaque to end users and governmental regulatory agencies. We have built and deployed Glasnost, a system that improves network transparency by enabling ordinary Internet users to detect whether their ISPs are differentiating between flows of specific applications. We identify three key challenges in designing such a system: (a) to attract many users, the system must have low barrier of use and generate results in a timely manner, (b) the results must be robust to measurement noise and avoid false accusations of differentiation, which can adversely affect ISPs reputation and business, (c) the system must include mechanisms to keep it up-to-date with the continuously changing differentiation policies of ISPs worldwide. We describe how Glasnost addresses each of these challenges. Glasnost has been operational for over a year. More than 350,000 users from over 5,800 ISPs worldwide have used Glasnost to detect differentiation, validating many of our design choices. We show how data from individual Glasnost users can be aggregated to provide regulators and monitors with useful information on ISP-wide deployment of various differentiation policies. 1
Kristian Petrov - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Medborgarrösten : En idéhistorisk jämförelse mellan rysk-sovjetisk Glasnost´ och västeuropeisk offentlighet
2020Co-Authors: Kristian PetrovAbstract:Medborgarrosten : En idehistorisk jamforelse mellan rysk-sovjetisk Glasnost´ och vasteuropeisk offentlighet
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Construction, reconstruction, deconstruction: The fall of the Soviet Union from the point of view of conceptual history
Studies in East European Thought, 2008Co-Authors: Kristian PetrovAbstract:The fall of the Soviet Union is analysed in conceptual terms, drawing on Reinhart Koselleck’s Begriffsgeschichte . The author seeks to interpret the instrumental role of the concepts perestrojka , Glasnost ´, reform, revolution, socialist pluralism, and acceleration in the Soviet collapse. The semantics and pragmatics are related to a wider intellectual and political context, and the conceptual perspective is used to help explain the progress of events. The author argues that the common notion of the reform policy concepts as clichés is not valid.
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tillbaka till framtiden modernitet postmodernitet och generationsidentitet i gorbacevs Glasnost och perestrojka
2006Co-Authors: Kristian PetrovAbstract:This dissertation deals with the concepts Glasnost and perestroika during the Gorbachev era 1985–1991. It offers an explanation to the rise and fall of these concepts and casts light on their modern and postmodern implications, as well as their historical and generational preconditions. In light of the Soviet and Russian conceptual history, Gorbachev’s articulation of Glasnost and perestroika is contrasted with the reception of these concepts in what at that time came to be called Russian postmodernism. Glasnost and perestroika both confirm and transcend Soviet modernity. They are both future-oriented but at the same time possess retrospective anchorage. The present study reconstructs the experience encapsulated in the concepts, the expectations they unleashed and the tensions they triggered. The Gorbachev era signaled a rupture in the temporal order of modernity. During this time Soviet modernity lost confidence in its self. With Glasnost and perestroika a suppressed past opened up which blocked the futurist potential inherent in the present. The concept-theoretical perspective assumed in the dissertation helps explain essential aspects of the dramatic turn of events. Postmodernism’s relationship to the concepts is mainly antagonistic. At the same time Glasnost and perestroika were essential to the self-identity creating process of postmodernism and its development of an understanding of a specific late Soviet postmodern situation. Beneath the surface a conflict evolves, constituted in intergenerational terms. The vast differences in deployment of the two key notions appear related to generation specific historical experiences. This is apparent in the Glasnost- and perestroika discussions of the 19th and 20th centuries. In several respects the 20th century discourse reflects that of the 19th century. The analysis in the present dissertation demonstrates how Gorbachev, on the basis of his generation-specific experience as a man of the 1960s actively sought to articulate an alternative reconstruction (perestroika) and did so with a distinct ideological accent. The postmodernists, the last Soviet generation, bore the imprint of the stagnation of the Brezhnev era and had no ideal past to resuscitate. Instead of reconstructing social reality they tried to place themselves outside it. This apolitical stance however embodied both anti-political and political implications.