Sentences with phrase «economic evidence suggesting»

The reasons for judgment have now been released and show that Justice Wigney preferred the economic evidence suggesting the conduct resulted from oligopoly behaviour rather than agreement.

Second, there is a substantial body of economic evidence suggesting that taxation of the return to savings can harm the prospects for economic growth, investment and efficiency.

While U.S. data continue to be mixed (durable goods and the Chicago Fed's National Activity Index were both soft last week), most of the recent economic evidence suggests the U.S. has recovered from its first quarter economic contraction.

Not exact matches

Conventional economic theory suggests that low unemployment should ultimately lead to upward pressure on wages - but there has been scant evidence of this during the latest squeeze on household finances.

Circumstantial and anecdotal evidence suggest that these capital inflows have had a large and growing influence on the Canadian housing market, whose imbalances continue to represent a key risk to the Canadian economic and financial outlook.»

While leading measures and our Recession Warning Composite do not currently provide enough evidence to anticipate an oncoming recession with confidence, they do suggest much greater prospects for economic weakness than the Wall Street consensus suggests.

Overall, however, the bulk of the evidence continues to suggest tepid economic growth with moderate but persistent inflation pressures, and the Market Climate for precious metals remains favorable on our measures.

We're going to let you in on a little secret: Investors focused on economic growth are wasting their time... If anything, the evidence suggests a negative correlation between equity returns and GDP growth... It may be that the best prices can be had in times of low economic growth, whereas we tend to overpay in a growing economy.

In principle, explaining the logic behind new economic policies is supposed to be the job of politicians and the media, but available evidence would suggest that they are not very good at it.

The evidence suggests that economic factors alone can't account for that.

On the first, polling evidence suggested that concern about economic issues (unemployment, poverty) outweighed the government's discourse of standing up to Russia and regaining occupied territories, and their hollow claims to be building the Nice or the Singapore of the Black Sea.

There is more evidence suggesting that Putin intends to frustrate Ukraine's quest for democracy and economic development, but in this field the EU could make a tangible difference.

The recent budget proposal by U.S. Representative Paul Ryan, for example, which claims to stimulate economic growth by removing funds from the recently passed public health option, suggests that conflicting values are evidence of incompatible ideologies.

While there is little evidence to suggest minority government has been a cause of poor economic outcomes in Tasmania — it is more that these governments were unlucky and found themselves in charge after national downturns — the fact remains that Tasmanians have a strong preference for majority government.

Despite a plethora of evidence suggesting that under - investment in regions and cities outside the capital city holds back national economic growth, the North of England continues to be overlooked.

The report draws on government and trade statistics, academic evidence and economic theory to challenge arguments that the health and social benefits of reducing alcohol consumption are likely to come at a cost to the economy, finding: · Any reduction in employment and income resulting from lower spending on alcohol would be offset by spending on other goods · Econometric analysis of US states suggests that a 10 % decrease in alcohol consumption is associated with a 0.4 % increase in per capita income growth · Lower alcohol consumption could also reduce the economic costs of impaired workplace productivity, alcohol - related sickness, unemployment and premature death, which are estimated to cost the UK # 8 - 11 billion a year The analysis comes at a timely moment, with health groups urging the Chancellor to raise alcohol duty in next month's Budget.

New sociological evidence from a a small fishing village in Baja California, Mexico suggests that the creation of marine protected areas, which influence who gets to fish and how much of species they can take, generates both extreme pro-social and anti-social behaviors among fishers, a finding that differs from previous economic and psychology studies.

While the drop appears to have resulted from budget cuts prompted by the economic downturn, Davis said evidence suggests that the curtailment of prison education could increase prison system costs in the longer term.

It concludes: «Overall, many cities spend substantial resources attracting and then hosting the Olympic Games, but the evidence to date suggests that the Olympics do not have a significant economic benefit to the host city.

The scientific evidence for global warming and for humanity's role in the increase of greenhouse gasses becomes ever more unimpeachable, as the [United Nations] IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 4th Assessment Report] findings are going to suggest; and such activity has a profound relevance, not just for the environment, but in ethical, economic, social and political terms as well.

Evidence suggests the conflict was triggered by a complex mix of social, political, economic and environmental factors.

Recently, mounting evidence has suggested that measures of individual cognitive skills that incorporate dimensions of test - score performance provide much better indicators of economic outcomes — while also aligning the research with the policy deliberations.

International evidence suggests that adoption of market - based education policies that rely on school choice and competition between schools over enrollment often leads to segregation of children into different schools according to their socio - economic background, race or parents» awareness of educational opportunities.

But the weight of the evidence suggests that, at least on average, public spending on universities leads to both desirable outcomes for students and faster economic growth.

In a paper published by Columbia University in 2015, The Economic Value of Social and Emotional Learning (PDF, 324KB), evidence suggests that classroom efforts to improve sociability are well worth the costs.

As we demonstrate below, the available evidence from the economic perspective suggests that two factors are critical in explaining the stagnation that persisted until 2000: the growing availability of the GED (General Educational Development) credential and increases in the nonmonetary costs of completing high school.

We examine 174 different nations across the globe from 1999 to 2014, and find significant evidence to suggest that private schooling leads to enhanced political and economic freedom.

An analysis of national Head Start data also suggests that children who enrolled in the program full day performed better in reading and math.Christopher R. Walters, «Inputs in the Production of Early Childhood Human Capital: Evidence from Head Start,» American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 7, no. 4 (2015): 76 — 102.

Likewise, there is evidence to suggest that many young people lack an understanding of how to manage their financial circumstances, which is a particular issue in the context of a difficult economic climate and increasingly common instances of personal debt and insolvency.

'' Research evidence from the United States and abroad suggests that parental choice policies, such as ESAs, result in increased social, economic, and racial stratification.

This document contains suggested evidence of student learning and activities, based on A Framework for Teaching Basic Concepts, Council for Economic Education, 1995.

There is evidence that economic inequality is a large contributor to the overall middling performance by U.S. students when it comes to international comparisons, with a 2013 study suggesting that if our students came from an overall similar economic divide as other first - world countries, our ranking would rise considerably.

The social equity arguments for preschool programs have recently been reinforced by compelling economic evidence that suggests that society at large benefits from investing in these programs.

Unaddressed but relevant peer - reviewed evidence on school choice policies suggest that the claimed academic and economic benefits of ESAs are speculative and overstated.

[The] results in Panel B suggest there is no clear evidence that a particular value strategy systematically outperforms all other strategies in contracting economic periods.

Despite promises from proponents of the tax cuts, evidence suggests that they did not improve economic growth or pay for themselves, but instead ballooned deficits and debt and contributed to a rise in income inequality.

Conference Board vice-president David Stewart - Patterson, one of the study's co-authors, said the economic think - tank was motivated to undertake the study due to a wealth of «anecdotal evidence» that suggests Canadian youth are falling behind economically.

For example, there is evidence to suggest that when consumer discretionary stock outperformance over consumer staples is two standard deviations above the historical average, economic contraction is likely to begin within a year's time.

While many end - users have benefited by applying weather and climate forecasts in their decision - making, there remains ample evidence to suggest that such information is underutilized across a wide range of economic sectors.

The document also suggests that it is urgent to bring about transformations in key economic systems, from energy, cities and food to the «take - make - waste» economy, and leverage evidence and new information technology, political leadership, coalitions for change and innovation.

Suggesting a source separation method of waste stream diversion, and trying to build a convincing economic argument for source separation has been a challenge because there is plenty of evidence that it appears no one is presently interested.

The results have been very positive: 100 percent of permits were sold in their most recent auction, at higher prices than expected, and evidence suggests that the ambitious emission reductions have been compatible with economic growth and have ensuring affordable access to energy.

It also suggests that if the climate movement can offer the public a credible social movement and economic mobilization framework and evidence of credible leadership to prevent the rapidly approaching climate catastrophe, then we can expect passionate and dedicated support.

I make precisely as much money from granting agencies for shooting down Jelbring's absurd paper as I do from the Big Oil companies for stating that the preponderance of evidence suggests that the very real GHG - GHE is not a catastrophic threat under any reasonable scenario for the economic and technological development of the world for the rest of the 21st century.

[T] he evidence does, in fact, suggest that what we're getting now is a first taste of the disruption, economic and political, that we'll face in a warming world.

He suggested to me that the evidence for AGW is pretty clear, but the US's approach to Kyoto was that it was not fair in terms of economic impacts to America, especially vis - a-vis China and India.

Not that I am a big fan of economic impacts, I would suggest looking at Camille vs Katrina, or likewise hurricane landfalls as far as truer comparisons, and of indirect evidence proving Global Warming.

If the latter, you are rejecting both the whole of economic theory and a massive body of empirical evidence which suggests that individuals and companies do respond to prices.

«When you look through the economic literature, there just isn't a whole lot of evidence that suggests that there are these strong linkages,» says Geist, adding that in some areas, flexibility, not restrictiveness, of intellectual property rights allows more innovation.

Gitxaala has filed evidence with the JRP to suggest that for them, the risks and effects of tanker traffic and a marine oil spill outweigh any potential economic benefits.