Verifying the Solution from a Nonlinear Solver - A Case Study: Reply

摘要

We are pleased to confirm that any doubt our article (McCullough and Vinod, 2003; hereafter "MV03") may have cast on Ron Shachar and Barry Nalebuff (1999; hereafter "SN99") must be removed. We are especially pleased because we thought it quite unfair that other researchers were able to exempt themselves from such detailed scrutiny. It appears that such researchers no longer will have the luxury of reneging on their agreement to honor the replication policy, as this journal now requires authors of accepted empirical papers to provide all programs and data files for posting on the AER Web site as a precondition of publication.