Sentences with phrase «economics professor said»

MONTPELIER — Vermont gubernatorial candidate Peter Galbraith (D) is making a $ 15 minimum wage a centerpiece of his campaign, but Republican opponents and one local economics professor say the wage could hurt Vermont's economy.

Professor Richard Moorhead of Cardiff School of Law, who will carry out the research with two economics professors says: «The controversies generated around no win, no fee agreements cry out for a balanced,evidence - based approach.»

Not exact matches

«Businesses have made the case that they need to be able to treat their employees equally, and they need to retain the best employees,» says M. V. Lee Badgett, a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.»

«I'll be interested to see what this does,» says Steve Ambler, chair of monetary policy with the C.D. Howe Institute and a UQAM economics professor.

«Once a company becomes a penny stock, it's pretty clear investors consider it a dead company,» says Fred Lazar, an economics professor at York University's Schulich School of Business.

As Kenneth Rogoff, an economics professor at Harvard, recently told Business Insider, when he was studying economics in the late 1970s, «Everyone said we'd never grow fast again.

«To pretend that Mexican companies would really pay is a distortion,» says J. Bradford Jensen, an economics professor at Georgetown University.

And small businesses could feel the pain more acutely if interest rates go up too rapidly, says Thomas Cooley, professor of economics and former dean of the New York University Stern School of Business.

In the case of real estate, it's a matter of turning a blind eye to staggering losses, says Patrick Chovanec, a professor at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management in Beijing.

«(Boomers) do take up a large part of the workforce, but there's absolutely no evidence that they're crowding out jobs that otherwise would be filled by young people,» said Tammy Schirle, an economics professor at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Carleton University economics professor Ian Lee says Poloz is fortunate because he's inherited a robust portfolio, but other economists say snapping the Canadian economy back to health will be much more difficult.

«Financial capital is very mobile and basically is looking only at rates of return,» says Chris Ragan, a professor of economics at McGill University and former adviser at the Bank of Canada.

Mark Schankerman, a professor at the London School of Economics, who first met Spangenberg after he donated some of his patent fortune to fund work in entrepreneurship at the London school, said patent trolls and their lawyers play a role in limiting the patent economy, especially in cases where they are demanding too much for IP — «the «holdups,» as he called them.

Victor Matheson, an economics professor at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts, says that pre-Olympic studies can be challenged on several grounds, one of which is the «substitution effect.»

It starts with the lengthy bidding process, says Andrew Zimbalist, an economics professor at Smith College in Massachusetts.

«This is a trot,» says Boston University economics professor Laurence Kotlikoff.

Co-author Joanna Lahey, an associate professor of economics at Texas A&M University, said the study was a way of exploring the «snowball» method of paying off debts from smallest to largest.

Complex families are a big driver of the increase, said paper co-author Robert A. Pollak, a professor of economics at the Olin Business School of Washington University in St. Louis.

«Nothing indicates that there will be retrogression, both in the democratic system and in the conduct of the Brazilian economy, toward a broad participation and integration with the rest of the world,» says Solival Menezes, a former economics professor at the University of São Paulo, who now operates a business consultancy in Canada.

«The key challenge they're going to face is merging the two internal cultures,» says McMaster University economics professor Arthur Sweetman.

Wolfers, professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan and several other institutions, soon shot back saying the stock market performed better under Obama than under Trump at the same point in their presidency.

But, Nick Economides, professor of economics at New York University's Stern School of Business, said it's hard to go from four companies to three companies without increasing prices.

«Making eye contact even with a character on a cereal box inspires powerful feelings of connection,» said Brian Wansink, a professor at Cornell's Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management.

«Social Security is about as complicated a fiscal system as is humanly possible to design,» said Larry Kotlikoff, an economics professor at Boston University and author of the book «Get What's Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security,» set for release in February.

Christopher Pissarides, a professor of economics at the London School of Economics, said Trump was having a «knee - jerk reaction» to certain groups of Americans who did not benefit from the past several decades of opeconomics at the London School of Economics, said Trump was having a «knee - jerk reaction» to certain groups of Americans who did not benefit from the past several decades of opEconomics, said Trump was having a «knee - jerk reaction» to certain groups of Americans who did not benefit from the past several decades of open trade.

«In itself it's a nebulous word,» said Jagdish Bhagwati, a professor of economics at Columbia University.

«If you look at most sports strikes, you really do see a big bounce - back right away,» says Victor Matheson, an economics professor at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts.

Columbia University Economics Professor Richard Clarida is said to be the front runner, but he has not been officially nominated for reasons that are unclear.

But such a trend could reverse very easily, says Randy Kroszner, professor of economics at the University of Chicago.

In an interview last year with Le Monde magazine, Susanne Sweet, a professor at the Stockholm School of Economics said, «One wonders what will happen when Kamprad's gone?

«The biggest issue for those companies is that the dollar will strengthen, and that will lead to a fall in competitiveness,» says Roberto Rigobon, a professor of applied economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

However, the case for the broad base of small businesses has not been made, says health care economist Chad Meyerhoefer, an associate professor at Lehigh University's College of Business and Economics.

Employers are «seeing the challenge of attracting interest in jobs,» says Tara Sinclair, an associate professor of economics at George Washington University and Indeed's chief economist.

«There's always some rancour in negotiating,» says Brad Humphreys, a University of Alberta professor who studies the economics of sports.

However, Canada's market share in the global clean tech industry has fallen 12 per cent in the last decade, and will continue to contract without a solid, long - term commitment to growing the industry, said institute co-chair Stewart Elgie, a professor of law and economics at the University of Ottawa.

Chris Hurt, a professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., said in a recent presentation that the U.S. Federal Reserve's quantitative easing (that is, the practice of issuing money to buy long - term government debt) likely elevated U.S. farmland prices.

While cities and states can certainly reduce their emissions from existing sources, energy technology innovation is a critical part of combating climate change, said Akshaya Jha, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who specializes in energy and environmental economics.

In pursuing that they are well advised to undertake small bets,» says Brian Brenberg, assistant professor of business and economics at The King's College in New York.

«Interest rates can't stay this low forever, because there exists the real risk of the economy getting overheated,» says Alex Nikolsko - Rzhevskyy, an associate professor of economics at Lehigh University.

«Coal is only viable to extract when the price is very high,» said Chris Bollinger, an economics professor and director of the Center for Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky, which recently published the 2018 Kentucky Annual Economieconomics professor and director of the Center for Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky, which recently published the 2018 Kentucky Annual EconomiEconomics at the University of Kentucky, which recently published the 2018 Kentucky Annual Economic Report.

«Anytime there's a suggestion of what something should taste like, some aspect of taste, when we try that food, we're looking for it,» said David Just, a professor of behavioral economics at Cornell University who is affiliated with the Cornell Food and Brand Lab.

«The number of applicant cities now is in decline in part because people are beginning to see these mega-sports events as mega-bad deals,» says Dr. Robert Baade, an economics and business professor at Lake Forest College.

«It sounds easy that we block imports and create jobs here but we forget about what other countries can do to us,» says Doug Irwin, an economics professor at Dartmouth and author of «Peddling Protectionism: Smoot - Hawley and the Great Depression.»

It is no longer true that commuting follows that pattern,» says Robin Lindsey, an economics professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, who has closely watched the progress of Edmonton's costly and underused LRT system.

The violent ups and downs, said Robert Shiller, an economics professor at Yale, may in turn undermine confidence in the economy, and the weakness in the economy can lead to more strident politics — all of which feeds the volatility loop.

«First of all there's an organizational and logistical challenge, to organize a vote in such a short notice,» said Aristides Hatzis, an associate professor of law and economics at the University of Athens.

Investors should want companies to reinvest in themselves and their employees versus repurchasing their own stock to increase the share price, said William Lazonick, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, who studies stock buybacks.

Responding to a comment made by Siegel on Wednesday that he doesn't know economics, Gross said Thursday that «Professor Siegel is getting a little nasty here.

Michael Greenstone, a professor of environmental economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says that removing, or at least significantly increasing liability caps, is the most effective way of synchronizing the interests of the oil industry with that of the public.

Alan Krueger, Princeton University Economics Professor, says the Federal Reserve's mission is never complete.