Sentences with phrase «lead economist on»

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Years ago, under Paul Martin, Finance stopped using its own forecasts, opting instead to base the budget on the average prediction of a group of outsiders, mostly the lead economists at the country's biggest banks.

'' (The EU) will seriously consider the strategy of moving forward at multiple speeds, which enjoys solid political backing in many of the «older» EU states — although the EU would have to apply this strategy with care, to address the concern that multiple speeds could lead to new divisions in the EU,» Reinhard Cluse, economist at UBS, said in a note on Friday.

Economist Mike Veall has a superb piece on the flawed methodology behind these calculations which led to the rather remarkable result that a single immigrant to Ontario is worth an extra $ 26 million in GDP.

One of the most popular behavioral economists tweets about far - ranging issues like why we lie, and what psychological factors led to corruption on Wall Street.

«The strides airlines are making to improve the flight experience — from varying fares that can fit any budget, in - flight entertainment options, gourmet food offerings and advancements in technology, both on the ground and in the air — are resonating with customers and leading to more Americans traveling more often by air,» said John Heimlich, vice president and chief economist at Airlines for America.

The Economist extrapolates that even a 2 percent bump on a $ 45,000 a year salary can lead to as much as an extra $ 67,000 over the course of a 40 - year working career, if you were to set aside your language bump in savings and figure in compound interest.

Additionally, any imposition of trade barriers or labeling China a currency manipulator may lead to a trade war or, at the least, be a drag on economic growth, as noted by Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs.

Matthew Winkler, founding editor in chief of Bloomberg News, is stepping down from his role leading the news service and will be succeeded by The Economist magazine editor in chief John Micklethwait, Bloomberg said on Tuesday.

«While much attention has focused on the role of China in slowing world trade growth, the trajectory of world trade growth from here depends more on the «old world» markets of the U.S. and Europe than standard trade data would suggest,» said Adam Slater, lead economist at Oxford Economics, in a report out last week.

«While the headlines oftentimes go to the large - sized companies, The PayScale Index for the second consecutive quarter showed wage growth for small companies outpacing medium and large companies,» Katie Bardaro, lead economist, PayScale, explained on the company's blog.

But on the flip side, many economists argue that tariffs would just lead to artificial price inflation.

«If you're able to find a job that to you seems better and worth a switch, on average at least that seems to lead to longer careers,» said co-author Geoffrey Sanzenbacher, a research economist at the Center for Retirement Research.

«Leading indicators suggest that domestic demand will continue to perform strongly in the second half of the year, but we think the quarter - on - quarter run - rate in headline GDP (gross domestic product) growth will slow to 0.4 percent - to - 0.5 percent quarter - on - quarter,» Claus Vistesen, chief euro zone economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said in an email.

Gross domestic product grew 1.7 percent in the second quarter, though favorable trade deficit figures on Tuesday led some economists to boost their estimates for future revisions.

Over 1,100 leading economists sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging the president to reverse course on recent trade tactics — lest the US repeat one of the biggest mistakes of the Great Depression.

Both Friedman (on the right) and Galbraith (on the left) were once leading public intellectuals and economists.

Editor's note: After Uber's chief economist, Jonathan Hall, publicly criticized the MIT study's findings for being based on «inconsistent logic,» its lead co-author acknowledged that the study's conclusions may be inaccurate and said he plans to run a new analysis to recalculate drivers» wages.

Over the past several months, many leading economists and financial experts — even Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen — have concurred that there are various elements of the economy that are in a bubble or on the cusp of entering into the bubble phase.

But economists note China still depends on state - led construction spending and other investment for nearly half its economic growth.

The program's research and publication activities are led by Daniel Schwanen, an award - winning economist with an extensive track record of influential research on cross-border trade and investment matters.

Sam Khater, senior economist at CoreLogic, a leading expert on the single - family category expects rent growth to increase «at a strong clip» throughout 2013, though not at the same rate as home prices.

CNBC asked leading economists Alan Krueger and Ed Lazear to weigh in on President Obama's record on jobs.

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Leading progressive academic economist Steve Keen gained international recognition after he successfully predicted the 2007 global crisis using an alternative macro-economic model built on the pioneering work of Hyman Minsky and Wynne Godley.

With more than thirty years of experience as an economist, and as a leading thinker on the impact of government impact on business, Moore has written extensively on the economy and public policy for The Wall Street Journal, and is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow for the Project for Economic Growth at The Heritage Foundation.

As a result, certain intangibles — such as values based on our more noble human impulses — are gradually entering the scope of leading thinkers, including historians, social scientists, businessmen and bankers — and even economists.

A leading Catholic ethicist and economist, Daniel Rush Finn, has pointed out that the boundaries placed on the market are a critical element in «the moral ecology of markets.»

According to Davison Budhoo, an economist who had worked with both the World Bank and the IMP before he quit the latter in protest against its policies, on the basis of the figures released by UNICEF, it is estimated that those policies led directly to the death of 70 million children under 5 years in the Third World between the years 1982 - 1990 and indirectly to the destitution and impoverishment of several hundred millions more 8.

«There is nothing in economic theory that requires» such narrowness (EC 5 - 5), but having captured their imagination this abstraction now leads all economists to discount «the effect of one person's welfare on that of others through bonds of sympathy..., and the physical effects of one person's production and consumption activities on others through bonds of bio-physical community» (EC 5 - 3).

There is a great responsibility on the part of economists and politicians to challenge the conventional wisdom that led to the 2007 crisis.

An economist at the University of Ghana Business School, Dr. Lord Mensah, has said calls on the incoming Nana Akufo - Addo - led administration to renegotiate the ongoing International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout are needless and will not yield any result.

The case for that rests on the assumption that there is «no alternative», which is at odds with the views of many leading economists.

However, according to Alexander Soutschek, an economist at the University of Zurich and lead author on the study, previous research on self - control and delayed gratification has focused instead on the prefrontal brain regions involved in impulse control.

Economists like to assert that humans are cool calculators of maximal utility, considering all options, then deciding on a course of action that leads to the best outcome possible.

«There is no scientist shortage,» says Harvard University economist Richard Freeman, a leading expert on the academic labor force.

Bill Hare, who leads a group of top climate scientists and economists at Berlin - based Climate Analytics who helped produce the UNEP gap report, said Geden's accusations «could not be more wrong» and lumped the researcher in with climate skeptics and other naysayers «who systematically downplay the risks of climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.»

«We have left no stone unturned in trying to find some explanatory variables,» says Donna Ginther, a University of Kansas economist and lead author on the study.

Gary Yohe is an economist at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. and a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared this year's Nobel Peace Prize with former U.S. vice president, Al Gore.

«The biggest surprise in the study is that «no growth hormones» is the number one concern consumers have across the board on all of these products,» says U of I food economist and lead researcher Brenna Ellison.

To test this idea experimentally, a team led by economist Gabriele Camera of Chapman University in Orange, California, brought 200 people into a room full of computers and asked them to play two different games, both based on the goal of earning points called «units.»

Bridget Terry Long to Lead Ed School (Harvard Gazette, May 2, 2018) Bridget Terry Long, A.M.» 97, Ph.D.» 00, a leading economist and internationally recognized scholar on the economics of higher education, will become the next dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Education (HGSE), Harvard President Drew Faust announced today.

This led some economists of the time to conclude that «input - based» policies such as providing more money to schools, reducing class sizes and improving teacher qualifications had «failed», and that improvements in schools now depended on giving teachers direct incentives to raise student performance:

By Kevin Hart One of the country's leading economists is warning that a Gates Foundation study on value - added teacher...

Still, the slowing construction sector and the tempered expectation for price appreciations in the housing resale market are taking a toll on investor outlook — and this is prompting leading economists to suggest an interest rate cut by the Bank of Canada at tomorrow's monetary policy announcement.

It gave me the opportunity to sit down next to a leading economist who schooled me on a few things about the retail world as we traveled from one coast to the other.

Isaacs» remarks prefaced a panel discussion on the topic led by report economist Kimberly Ritter - Martinez with Academy members Victoria Alonso and Debra Martin Chase.

Below I'm posting some more criticism, from four researchers focused on energy innovation and climate policy: Inês Azevedo, an associate professor and public policy analyst at Carnegie Mellon University, Kenneth Gillingham, an economist at Yale, David Rapson, an economist at the University of California, Davis, and Gernot Wagner, lead senior economist at the Environmental Defense Fund.

In his papal encyclical, Francis blasted the concept of «unlimited economic growth,» which he said «proves so attractive to economists, financiers and experts in technology,» but «is based on the lie that there is an infinite supply of the earth's goods, and this leads to the planet being squeezed dry beyond limit.»

First, RealClimate.org revealed that the supposedly «suppressed» EPA report, ostensibly by economist Alan Carlin, was based in large part on the pseudo-scientific musings of FoS director Ken Gregory (although it subsequently turned out that Patrick Michaels had a stronger claim on being anonymous lead author as detailed previously here and here).

«More than 80 leading economists from 20 countries have signed a Declaration on Climate Finance urging for an immediate end to investment in new fossil fuel projects and a dramatic increase in renewable energy investment.»