Sentences with phrase «developed by the economists»

The best guide to future returns is the cyclically adjusted P / E ratio, or CAPE, developed by economist Robert Shiller.
One early success was Sugarscape, developed by economists Robert Axtell of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and Joshua Epstein of New York University (NYU) in New York City.
All of the them except for the SGP have been developed by economists, and they are likely just as sophisticated in their design (1) given minor tweaks to model specifications and (2) given various data limitations and restrictions.
This financial quiz (actually a psychological experiment) was developed by the economists Jeffrey Brown, Jeffrey Kling, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Marian V. Wrobel, who wanted to understand what factors went into people's retirement decisions.

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To calculate today's earnings yield, and hence the cost of capital, we'll use the «cyclically adjusted price - to - earnings» ratio, or CAPE, developed by Yale economist Robert Shiller.
The idea was originally developed in the early 1930s by the Russian - born economist Simon Kuznets, who was commissioned by the U.S. government to come up with a better way to measure economic activity — and guide an increasingly interventionist government policy — than relying on shaky indicators like the stock market and railcar loadings.
Developed by Yale economist Robert Shiller, it uses not current earnings - per - share as the denominator, but a ten - year average of inflation - adjusted EPS.
This «social capital,» as the economist Herbert Simon once called it, was developed by many people over many generations and provides a collective inheritance that is now unequally and unfairly apportioned by markets in setting wages and salaries.
Now, the American start - up Factom is developing a blockchain - based land registry system that reduces this risk and provides Hondurans with time - stamped and irreversible digital rights to their land, as reported by the Economist last year.
The Economist said his financial innovations «are credited with fueling much of America's rampant economic growth by enabling companies with bright ideas to get the money they need to develop them.»
Economist: Originally a member of the Physiocratic School (L'Économistes) founded by Francois Quesnay who developed the Tableau Économique as the first formal national income statement.
The LMCI is a relatively recent indicator developed by Federal Reserve economists to assess changes in the labor market conditions.
Much of the debate about slack, the drop in unemployment to 16 - year lows and wage gains goes to the heart of the Phillips Curve — a model developed in 1950s by New Zealand economist William Phillips to determine the inverse relationship between the unemployment rate and inflation.
We suspected that the decline in correlation of improvement in economic welfare and growth in market activity had continued, and we thought that using a widely recognized measure, developed by respected economists, would give some authority to the results.
According the Economist's blog, a study was recently done by Social Computing Lab at Hewlett - Packard that analyzed twenty - two million tweets and developed an algorithem to determine if popularity and influence on Twitter are related to one another.
It developed and implemented the «cradle to grave» welfare state conceived by the economist William Beveridge.
London economists found that adding 10 phones per 100 people boosts a developing country's GDP by 0.6 percent.
Earlier this year the same panel — chaired by economist Jim O'Neill, formerly of investment bank Goldman Sachs — reported that companies aren't developing new antibiotics fast enough to keep up with the rate at which bacteria are becoming resistant to existing ones.
For developing new antibiotics, massive government intervention and financial incentives are the answer, says a commission established by the British prime minister and chaired by a former Goldman Sachs economist.
«We were surprised by the high probability of developing CKD during a lifetime,» said Thomas Hoerger, Ph.D., a health economist and senior fellow at RTI and the paper's lead author.
A team of economists and labour market specialists developed an innovative analytical technique to estimate the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on productivity across Britain's low - paying sectors, as defined by the Low Pay Commission.
At issue are some of the techniques developed by environmental economists for analysing the costs and benefits of preventing global warming.
The same expert committee, chaired by economist Jim O'Neill, formerly of investment bank Goldman Sachs, reported earlier this year that companies are not developing new antibiotics fast enough to keep up with the rate at which bacteria are becoming resistant to existing ones.
One controversial idea that Kauffman develops in his book is that by failing to take this approach to economics, traditional economists are unable to explain something that seems obvious but isn't: How does innovation drive growth?
With this in mind, LSE researchers set out to study the nature and extent of the «intangible» impact of the Olympic Games by using measures of subjective wellbeing that have been developed and tested by economists and psychologists for around 20 years in order to assess how people think and feel about their lives.
The New York City Department of Education ventured into pay - for - performance for students beginning this year with two pilot projects developed by Harvard University economist Roland G. Fryer, who is working pro bono as the department's chief equality officer.
Economist Hermna Daly in trying to separate growth and development points out that «to grow means to increase in size by the assimilation or accetion of materials» while «to develop means to exapand or realize the potentialities of, to bring to a fuller, greater, or better state» (cited in Hathaway & Boff, 2009: 23).
Among the book's more «robust» conclusions, to use the economists» term, is that the high Swedish expenditure on adult education (which is very well developed in Sweden, as a resource for unemployed workers and as a way of upgrading or changing one's credentials) is not warranted by its returns: But how could it be, when, we learn, «individuals received student pay [all students are paid in Sweden — part of the commitment to equality] at the level of unemployment benefits, which in Sweden replace up to 80 percent of forgone earnings.»
His intent is to deepen the discussion, developing a point indicated but not clearly landed by The Economist:
For those of you who haven't heard of it before or need a refresher, according to Wikipedia, «it is named after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who observed in 1906 that 80 % of the land in Italy was owned by 20 % of the population; he developed the principle by observing that 20 % of the pea pods in his garden contained 80 % of the peas»
Economic policy developed by British economist John Maynard Keynes who proposed that active government intervention in the market was the only method of ensuring economic growth and prosperity.
The CAPE Ratio or the Cyclically Adjusted Profit Earnings Ratio, also known as the P / E 10 Ratio or the Shiller Ratio, was developed by Dr. Robert Shiller an Economist from Yale University.
Nareit provides rigorous analytic research — developed by Nareit's economists as well as sponsored research — that individually and collectively highlights and clarifies the competitive long - term market performance record and portfolio benefits of REITs and the role REITs should play in diversified investment portfolios.
Why does the list not include economists like Amartya Sen of Harvard University, also a Nobel prize winning economist whose career is devoted to promoting well - being particularly among the world's poor (he had an op - ed a couple of days ago in the NY Times re: the food crisis); or Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University, also a former World Bank chief economist and Nobel prize winner who is critical of the globalized free market apparatus run by the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO; or Herman Daley of the University of Maryland, also a former economist at the World Bank whose career is devoted to developing a sustainable economy within the ecological constraints of our environment.
In his popular book «Kicking Away the Ladder» the economist Ha - Joon Chang explains how developed countries are attempting to constrain the development of the «third world» by denying, forbidding and condemning the same tools they used the get themselves where they are now.
What even worse, due to the outside pressures to require revaluation of Chinese Yuan, and things like border tax in the U.S on Chinese imports, some influential economists, whom I would label strong nationalists, are totally tearing apart the global warming fact and ridiculously propagandizing that climate change is entirely a plan faked by developed countries in order to suppress China's economic development.
However, these claims do not seem to reconcile with results from the DICE - 2013R model, developed by the highly respected and cited climate economist, William Nordhaus.
For over twenty years, as documented by the survey of economists done by Dr. Ross McKitrick in his PhD dissertation and well - developed since then both in studies and in practical application we've known the current tax system is extremely inefficient compared to the double dividend (or better) of a carbon tax for revenue.
In a 2012 study, Elizabeth A. Stanton, an environmental economist at Synapse Energy Economics, noted that projections by the International Energy Agency, on which leading climate models are based, assume that the least developed countries will fail to close the prosperity gap with the rich of the world.
World - renowned economist Hernando de Soto says that, by establishing a peer - to - peer secure record of property transactions, blockchain could be the key to tackling poverty in the developing world.
Written by well - known academic and practising economists and lawyers from both developed and developing countries.
«Developers know that they can make money only by developing, and it is rare for them to react quickly to the changing market conditions,» says Torto Wheaton economist Gleb Nechayev.
Nareit provides rigorous analytic research — developed by Nareit's economists as well as sponsored research — that individually and collectively highlights and clarifies the competitive long - term market performance record and portfolio benefits of REITs and the role REITs should play in diversified investment portfolios.
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