Sentences with phrase «academic economists at»

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But then again, the father of classical economics, Adam Smith, wasn't an «economist» (as «economics» wasn't a distinct academic field in his times) but a professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow University.

Academic economists do not need to concede the fiscal stimulus point to Bay Street — but we should at least acknowledge that they may have one.

James Hamilton, a respected economist at University of California, San Diego, has done significant academic research on the topic.

«There is extensive academic literature suggesting that populism is bad for economic growth and prosperity but also for most investment classes,» economists at Macquarie wrote last week.

Economists and academics are divided on whether the Fed's policies have truly helped the rich at the expense of the rest of America.

«We have all this evidence that the academic benefits are limited to high - needs kids,» says education expert David Johnson, an economist at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ont.

Dr. Piwowar's first tenure at the SEC was in the Office of Economic Analysis (now called the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis) as a visiting academic scholar on leave from Iowa State University and as a senior financial economist.

It may have taken a surprisingly long time for analysts to understand why the credit process made rebalancing both urgent and inevitable, but it was clear to many economists, especially among Chinese academics, that severe distortions had been building at least since the beginning of the last decade.

He was a Visiting Professor, New York University Law School, 2007; President and CEO of the C. D. Howe Institute from 1999 - 2006; Clifford Clark Visiting Economist at the Department of Finance, Ottawa; and Associate Dean (Academic) of the Faculty of Management, University of Toronto, 1993 — 1995.

The short version: He is an outstanding academic economist; he was the No. 2 official at the IMF; and he did a virtuoso job leading the Bank of Israel until earlier this year, making him the central banker to one of the nation's closest allies.

At the heart of Keynes Hayek is the clash over ideas and theories between John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich von Hayek, between the English academic economist who advised governments and the Austrian academic who became an intellectual refugee.

I made these remarks at a public forum on May 6, 2017 which attracted the «academic» economist's ire!

Incidentally Businessday featured in its edition of May 18, (the same day the academic economist's treatise was printed) a report that «Senegal raises $ 1.1 bn Eurobond at lower cost than Nigeria's $ 1.5 bn».

I made these self - evident points at a forum recently only to be confronted by an academic economist who argued that multiple and widely differing exchange rates were not a deterrent to foreign investment!

While on - air gaffes clearly make great television drama, news editors have at their disposal many information - rich sources that could be used to more routinely question the parties» policies, from economists and academics to legal, medical or environmental experts.

According to researchers Dr. Edith Sand, an economist at the Bank of Israel and an instructor at TAU's Berglas School of Economics, and Prof. Victor Lavy, a professor at Hebrew University and University of Warwick in England, the classroom teacher's unwitting prejudice is a key factor explaining the divergence of boys» and girls» academic preferences.

«It is an opportune time for academic economists, complexity scientists, social scientists, ecologists, epidemiologists, and researchers at financial institutions to join forces and develop tools from complexity theory, as a complement to existing economic modeling approaches», says Andy Haldane, Chief Economist of the Bank of England.

Scott Imberman has presented at numerous academic conferences including annual meetings for the American Economic Association, the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, the Society of Labor Economists, and the Association for Education Finance and Policy.

Economists Leonardo Bursztyn, Georgy Egorov, and Robert Jensen looked at two types of peer groups: one that emphasized academics (students who believe it's «cool to be smart») and one that emphasized friendships (those who believe it's «smart to be cool»).

Recent work by economists and other academic researchers — some of it presented at a recent symposium at Columbia University («The Social Costs of Inadequate Education»)-- concluded that such investments have large payoffs in raising national income and tax revenues and reducing the cost of public services.

«The Coleman Report pushed family and community to the forefront in shaping academic success,» said David Figlio, an economist and director of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Although Gaetz's bill does not include fiscal expenditures, as noted in the main text (§ IV, supra), in reviewing the start time / academic achievement studies undertaken by fellow economists, Columbia University Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics Jonah Rockoff and the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Education at the University of Michigan, Brian Jacob, concluded that delaying middle and high school start times «from roughly 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. -LSB-,]» will increase academic achievement by 0.175 standard deviations on average, with effects for disadvantaged students roughly twice as large as advantaged students, at little or no cost to schools; i.e., a 9 to 1 benefits to costs ratio when utilizing single - tier busing, the most expensive transportation method available.

Stanford University economist Eric Hanushek, a fellow at the libertarian Hoover Institute, has been making this argument for three decades in academic papers, op - eds and courtrooms, where he is often called to testify in defense of unequal school funding schemes in which rich towns receive disproportionate state aid compared with their high - poverty peers.

Being in a small class, economists Alan Krueger and Diane Schanzenbach found, made a noticeable difference in a student's academic performance: Math and reading scores improved, and more students took college - entrance exams, signaling at least an interest in continuing their education beyond high school.

I only did one pass at the data (please ask academic economists what they do), in this case, it showed that after adjusting for sectors and general economics (time), the states one was in did not matter much, as those that did well did not move to seek lower tax environs.

Better not scoff at academic research: From Superdata to in - house economists, from feminist theory to Bartle, and from education applications to NASA mapping, science is shaping the video games we play — and vice versa.

The statement by academic economists on global warming that's been discussed here previously has been released, with 270 (or maybe 271) signatures including at least 70 professors.

Most academic economists accepted, at least behind closed doors, that it was a sound policy idea.

Mr. Henderson, a distinguished academic economist and former head of economics at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, has been tangling with the IPCC for some time.

Strange to say, the author of this happy thesis is not a steely - eyed economist at a conservative Washington think tank but a vegetarian, backpack - toting academic who was a member of Greenpeace for four years.

It is no surprise that environmental economists and other social scientists with an interest in renewable energy also believe that their research can change the world (and bring in a few research grants and raise their academic profiles at the same time).

The real total estimate of warming that is at least twice the academic ECS estimate The Economist so desperately tried to water down.

NAR began its normal process for benchmarking sales at the beginning of this year in consultation with government agencies, outside housing economists and academic experts.

NAR began its normal process for benchmarking sales at the beginning of this year in consultation with government agencies, outside housing economists and academic experts; there will be no change to median prices.