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...Mike Konczal has the post of the day summarising a new paper by economists Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash, and Robert Pollin — they find flaws in the methodology used by Reinhart and Rogoff, in their controversial...
...This week, a paper by Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash and Robert Pollin (HAP) argued that the RR stylised fact was based on simple statistical errors, including a spreadsheet error which RR have now acknowledged...
...And it’s under attack by a trio at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst – Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash, and Robert Pollin....
...But the Massachusetts academics – Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash and Robert Pollin – countered that when they repeated the analysis with the same data they got a figure of plus 2.2 per cent....
...In a new working paper, co-authored with Thomas Herndon, we found that these results were based on a series of data errors and unsupportable statistical techniques....
...The row began in April when a student, Thomas Herndon, tried and failed to replicate the famous R&R paper as a piece of coursework....
...The first was debunked last week by Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash and Robert Pollin, researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst....
...The recent critique by Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash and Robert Pollin of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst makes three specific charges against the conclusions of professors Reinhart and Rogoff:...
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