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Working Papers

2016

1. The Future of Economic Development between Utopias and Dystopias
   The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance View citations (1)

2015

2. The fallacy of evidence based policy
   Papers, arXiv.org View citations (2)

2014

3. New Narratives for the European Project
   The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance View citations (1)

2006

4. Creating Composite Indicators with DEA and Robustness Analysis: the case of the Technology Achievement Index
   Public Economics Working Paper Series, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Working Group Public Economics View citations (23)
   See also Journal Article Creating composite indicators with DEA and robustness analysis: the case of the Technology Achievement Index, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan (2008) View citations (130) (2008)

2005

5. Handbook on Constructing Composite Indicators: Methodology and User Guide
   OECD Statistics Working Papers, OECD Publishing View citations (347)

Journal Articles

2023

1. What can mathematical modelling contribute to a sociology of quantification?
   Palgrave Communications, 2023, 10, (1), 1-8

2022

2. The delusive accuracy of global irrigation water withdrawal estimates
   Nature Communications, 2022, 13, (1), 1-4 View citations (7)

2021

3. Irrigated areas drive irrigation water withdrawals
   Nature Communications, 2021, 12, (1), 1-12 View citations (11)
4. The opening of Central and Eastern European countries to free trade: A critical assessment
   Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2021, 58, (C), 23-34 View citations (1)
5. Variable Selection in Regression Models Using Global Sensitivity Analysis
   Journal of Time Series Econometrics, 2021, 13, (2), 187-233 View citations (1)
6. Variance-based sensitivity analysis: The quest for better estimators and designs between explorativity and economy
   Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2021, 206, (C) View citations (6)

2020

7. Ethics of quantification: illumination, obfuscation and performative legitimation
   Palgrave Communications, 2020, 6, (1), 1-5 View citations (7)
8. Five ways to ensure that models serve society: a manifesto
   Nature, 2020, 582, (7813), 482-484 View citations (27)
9. From sociology of quantification to ethics of quantification
   Palgrave Communications, 2020, 7, (1), 1-8 View citations (6)
10. Quantitative Storytelling in the Making of a Composite Indicator
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2020, 149, (3), 775-802 View citations (24)

2019

11. A short comment on statistical versus mathematical modelling
    Nature Communications, 2019, 10, (1), 1-3 View citations (10)
12. Views from a continent in flux
    Nature, 2019, 569, (7757), 481-484

2018

13. Fixing statistics is more than a technical issue
    Nature, 2018, 553, (7688), 281-281

2016

14. Climate costing is politics not science
    Nature, 2016, 532, (7598), 177-177 View citations (1)

2015

15. The future of public trust in science
    Nature, 2015, 524, (7564), 161-161 View citations (1)

2013

16. Ratings and rankings: voodoo or science?
    Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2013, 176, (3), 609-634 View citations (86)

2012

17. Random and quasi-random designs in variance-based sensitivity analysis for partially ordered sets
    Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2012, 107, (C), 184-189 View citations (1)

2011

18. Indicators for European Union Policies. Business as Usual?
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2011, 102, (2), 197-207 View citations (9)
19. Rickety numbers: Volatility of university rankings and policy implications
    Research Policy, 2011, 40, (1), 165-177 View citations (79)

2009

20. Screening important inputs in models with strong interaction properties
    Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2009, 94, (7), 1149-1155 View citations (11)

2008

21. Creating composite indicators with DEA and robustness analysis: the case of the Technology Achievement Index
    Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2008, 59, (2), 239-251 View citations (130)
    See also Working Paper Creating Composite Indicators with DEA and Robustness Analysis: the case of the Technology Achievement Index, Public Economics Working Paper Series (2006) View citations (23) (2006)

2007

22. Composite Indicators between Analysis and Advocacy
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2007, 81, (1), 65-77 View citations (141)
23. The role of sensitivity analysis in ecological modelling
    Ecological Modelling, 2007, 203, (1), 167-182 View citations (71)

2006

24. From Complexity to Multidimensionality. The Role of Composite Indicators for Advocacy of EU Reform
    Review of Business and Economic Literature, 2006, LI, (3), 221-235 View citations (4)
25. Hydrocarbon exploration risk evaluation through uncertainty and sensitivity analyses techniques
    Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2006, 91, (10), 1155-1162 View citations (2)
26. Sensitivity analysis practices: Strategies for model-based inference
    Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2006, 91, (10), 1109-1125 View citations (43)

2005

27. Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis techniques as tools for the quality assessment of composite indicators
    Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2005, 168, (2), 307-323 View citations (228)

2002

28. On the Relative Importance of Input Factors in Mathematical Models: Safety Assessment for Nuclear Waste Disposal
    Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2002, 97, 702-709 View citations (74)
29. Sensitivity Analysis for Importance Assessment
    Risk Analysis, 2002, 22, (3), 579-590 View citations (91)

1998

30. An alternative way to compute Fourier amplitude sensitivity test (FAST)
    Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 1998, 26, (4), 445-460 View citations (19)
31. Presenting Results from Model Based Studies to Decision‐Makers: Can Sensitivity Analysis Be a Defogging Agent?
    Risk Analysis, 1998, 18, (6), 799-803 View citations (2)

1995

32. Sensitivity analysis of model output. Performance of the iterated fractional factorial design method
    Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 1995, 20, (4), 387-407 View citations (9)

1993

33. Sensitivity analysis of model output: An investigation of new techniques
    Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 1993, 15, (2), 211-238 View citations (21)

1992

34. Sensitivity analysis for model output: Performance of black box techniques on three international benchmark exercises
    Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 1992, 13, (1), 73-94 View citations (7)

Chapters

2023

1. Altered states: Cartesian and Ricardian dreams
   Chapter 4 in A Modern Guide to Uneven Economic Development, 2023, pp 108-134
2. Free trade with the former COMECON countries as unequal exchange
   Chapter 12 in A Modern Guide to Uneven Economic Development, 2023, pp 255-276
3. Physiocracy, guillotines and antisemitism? Did economics emulate the wrong Enlightenment?
   Chapter 9 in A Modern Guide to Uneven Economic Development, 2023, pp 200-217

2016

4. Epilogue: the future of economic development between utopias and dystopias
   Chapter 40 in Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development, 2016, pp 738-786