Sentences with phrase «leading economists from»

«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.»

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«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.

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.

Sales also rebounded from the month before, leading BMO Capital Markets economists Robert Kavcic and Jennifer Lee to interpret the numbers as a sign that the market «is showing more signs of stabilizing.»

«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.

Morneau is scheduled to sit down Friday in Toronto with leading economists at a roundtable that typically includes about a dozen experts from commercial banks, think tanks and trade associations.

Last year, Citi's chief economist, Willem Buiter, suggested that throwing up tariffs could lead to retaliation from other countries (a trade war) and «could easily trigger a global recession.»

Since one of the industry's leading economists is suggesting that coworking's growth is «absolutely unprecedented», expect more participation from this giant industry.

Our internal team of researchers works closely with leading financial economists to better understand where returns come from.

Christina Romer, the famed economist from the University of California at Berkeley, was tapped to lead the Council of Economic Advisers.

I was joined by 13 other economists who have led the President's Council of Economic Advisers, a post I held from 2003 to 2005.

«We should be seeing some serious upticks in orders if the tax cut is going to lead to the promised jump in investment,» Dean Baker, an economist from the liberal - leaning Center for Economic and Policy Research, said in an email.

We should really be taking our lead from the, open, Economists.

This does not directly challenge economists» dualism, but it does show that their lack of interest in the natural world leads them to treat it only in categories they derive from the study of the industrial economy.

But a recent book by international economist Branko Milanovic, Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization, has helped me grasp some of the underlying forces that are driving the leaders away from the led.

Arsenal fc, a club lead by a narcistic wannabe economist of a manager who gets backed from a board full of bankers and no football people at all.

Fear of advances by the nationalist parties, particularly in Scotland, led to the suppression of a report from Scottish Office economist Gavin McCrone that suggested that an independent Scotland would be «chronically in surplus».

«The weight of evidence from these hundred leading economists is clear.

Hawkins cited a report by a team of engineers and economists led by Prof. Mark Jacobsen of Stanford that makes the case that 100 % renewable energy from wind, water, and solar sources by 2030 in New YorkState is technologically and economically feasible.

Income from forests has been largely «undervalued», particularly in assessments of poverty and income such as the World Bank's Living Standard Measurement Survey, says Arild Angelsen, an environmental economist at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Aas and a lead author of the study by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) based in Bogor, Indonesia.

What sets the study apart from most previous evaluations is its randomized, controlled design — a relatively new approach honed by lead author Abhijit Banerjee, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and his colleagues.

Students more likely to participate in free - and reduced - price lunch programs are among the same populations most likely to suffer from obesity and related health risks, said Janet Peckham, an economist in the Office of the Commissioner at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and lead author of the study.

The first steps toward the international move began about 15 years ago with some gentle prodding by a group of leading international reporters — from New Scientist, The Economist, Nature and The Guardian — who had been urging an expansion of the program.

Moreover, the book's format - lengthy essays by Krueger and Heckman (who teamed up with fellow economist Pedro Carneiro, now of University College London, for his contribution), followed by commentaries from five scholars, each with a favorite bone (or nit) to pick, then by extended responses and final rejoinders from the lead authors - makes it hard to find the forest for the trees.

U.S. housing prices may still fall more than 10 per cent, killing an incipient recovery, as demand from first - time home buyers fades, leading economist Nouriel Roubini said Thursday.

This has led many economists to advocate excluding all savings from taxation and taxing only consumption.

This led to a conflict with academic economists who insisted the optimal strategy was derived from utility maximization.

Gold 2048 brings together industry - leading experts from across the globe to analyse how the gold market is set to evolve in the next 30 years with key insights from authors such as George Magnus, senior economist; Rick Lacaille, Global Chief Investment Officer of State Street Global Advisors; and Michelle Ash, Chief Innovation Officer at Barrick Gold.

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.

Alongside fellow Italian art enthusiasts, Antonio Fradeletto (economist, scholar and Secretary General of the Biennale) was keen to see paintings by leading British artists, and so invited a selection of artists from the radical Pre-Raphaelite art group to take part.

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 one scenario painted by the Deutsche Bank team led by chief economist Jun Ma, China's imports of thermal coal would cease by 2017, nearly a decade earlier than most forecasts, and coal consumption would fall from 68 per cent of total energy consumption to 32 per cent by 2030.

Two leading critics, mining consultant Steve McIntyre and economist Ross McKitrick, argued that MBH's computer program generates hockey stick - shaped graphs from random data.

In his latest column for the New York Times, economist and liberal pundit Paul Krugman argues that a new report from the Chamber of Commerce, intended to show that reducing carbon emissions will be too costly, is actually a great piece of evidence for those who argue that the U.S. can lead the fight against climate change without appreciably hurting its economy.

Leading the pack, Daily Mail reporter David Rose attempted to equate Stavins» concerns with those of economist Richard Tol, who withdrew «from the summary of an earlier volume of the full IPCC report, on the grounds it had been «sexed up» by the same government officials and had become overly «alarmist.»»

PARIS (Reuters)- A climate change deal is needed not just to ward off global warming, but to ensure a shift from increasingly costly fossil fuels that could lead to a doubling of energy bills, the IEA's chief economist said on Tuesday.

The Panel's mailbox has been stuffed with cracking submissions from Australia's leading energy market economists, business groups and, more importantly, the really BIG players in Australia's energy market (let's call them the «energy market gorillas»).

Yet, whether these assets will become stranded or actually will lead to carbon bubble, the risk increasingly has garnered attention from news outlets such as the BBC, the Financial Times and The Economist.

The 32 hand - picked signatories comprise a virtual «who's who» of leading climate economists and other «wise men» (and women) including four Nobel laureates, three former U.S. cabinet secretaries, and prominent academics from Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and the University of Chicago.

The Climate Impact Lab is a unique collaboration of 30 climate scientists, economists, computational experts, researchers, analysts, and students from some of the nation's leading research institutions.

Prof Tol, from Sussex University, is a highly respected climate economist and one of two «co-ordinating lead authors» of an important chapter in the 2,600 - page report published last week by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

For the Copenhagen Consensus, one of the lead economists of the IPCC, Professor Gary Yohe, did a survey of all the problems and all the benefits accruing from a temperature rise over this century of about approximately 4C.

«Poorly constructed, badly maintained, and aging infrastructure and housing — a legacy of both the Soviet era and the transition years — are ill - suited to cope with storms, heat waves, or floods, let alone protect people from such extreme events,» said the study headed by Zeljko Bogetic, the World Bank's lead economist for Russia... Floods or other «extreme events» can cause far greater damage in Russia than would be the case in other parts of the world, the World Bank report said.

A brilliant economist from totally rebutted a leading englilsh denialist who had previously spokent to packed houses»

Dr Frank Jotzo, a leading environmental economist from the Australian National University and an adviser to the original Garnaut Review, believes the Greens» plan will deliver business the certainty it wants and start cutting emissions.

Our focus on traumatic injury cases arising from car, motorcycle, bicycle, pedestrian, truck and other vehicle accidents has led us to forge strong relationships with a wide range of experts in this area, ranging from doctors and surgeons to accident reconstruction engineers, law enforcement, economists and vocational rehabilitation experts.

Sounds like standard stuff, but Trunk's presentation - weaving in research from leading academics, economists and marketers - is detailed and compelling.

Vox, a European site, offers «Research - based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists,» one instance of which is «Neuroeconomic theory: Using neuroscience to understand the bounds of rationality» by Isabelle Brocas and Juan D. Carrillo.

With institutional backing from Santa Clara University's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, and with help from leaders at more than 75 news organizations including The Economist and The Washington Post, the 58 - year - old science writer has led the charge in crafting a set of transparency standards for outlets to implement.

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