Sentences with phrase «of economists studying»

Bill Nordhaus, perhaps the dean of economists studying climate change, has written the following (pretty much representative of the center of gravity of economists views on this) in the special issue that I referenced:

That's one takeaway of new research by a group of economists studying penny stocks that were heavily touted through suspect email campaigns.

Not exact matches

James Dean, an economist at Simon Fraser University who has studied sovereign - debt crises in Latin America, Asia and Europe over four decades, says one of the great paradoxes of sovereign debt is that countries can manage heavy burdens for a long time.

According to a Yale study conducted by U.S. economist Daniel Hamermesh, attractive men can earn 9 percent more than their average - looking colleagues, while attractive women could see a bump of up to 4 percent.

Two Swiss economists who studied the effect of commuting on happiness found that such factors could not make up for the misery created by a long commute.

Benjamin Tal, an economist with CIBC, reported in a study earlier this year that heavy borrowers, those with household debt - to - gross income ratios above 160, accounted for 34 % of all borrowers compared to 26 % in 2007.

Card is ranked No. 36 on Research Papers in Economics» (RePEc) list of most commonly cited economists; and Google Scholar indicates one of his papers on education and the labour market has received even more citations than the famous Card - Krueger study.

In fact, according to a 2012 study by the Economist Intelligence Unit, 66 % of multinational companies say «talent shortages are likely to affect their bottom line within the next 5 years.»

The authors of the study — two professors from Stanford, one from the University of Minnesota, and an economist at the Social Security Administration — describe it more dryly.

People who marry and don't divorce have about double the net worth of their peers who never wed, according to Jay Zagorsky, an economist and research scientist at Ohio State University, who studied the financial patterns of thousands of adults born from 1957 to 1964.

In his study, «The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market,» Berkeley economist David Card concluded that despite a 7 % increase in the Miami labor market for unskilled workers, the mass migration had virtually no impact on local wages and unemployment.

As explained on the TED Ideas blog by economist and author Tim Harford, the study compared volunteers» productivity on a routine task in a variety of spaces.

«The theory is that if new industries that are not competitive are subsidized they will eventually mature and be able to function on their own,» said University of Guelph economist Glenn Fox at a conference last June, citing studies suggesting clean energy policies in Denmark, Germany and Spain are a drag on economic growth.

Citing studies on disruptive innovation by the likes of 20th - century economist Joseph Shumpeter, he makes an analogy with the energy industry.

Sumit Agarwal, an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, studied the link between cognitive abilities and what he calls «suboptimal behaviour.»

A Singapore economist who has studied this trend detects the emergence of «something like a single national corporation.»

Useem describes the evolution of dynamic pricing since the mid-1990s — «eBay was Disneyland,» says one economist who studied consumer habits there.

Other firms conduct cost - of - living studies, among them the Economist Intelligence Unit, ECA International, Mercer and PriceRunner International.

Williams has a Ph.D in economics from Stanford, where he studied under famed economist John Taylor, as well as an MS from the London School of Economics, and an BA from Cal - Berkeley.

Randall Bartlett, chief economist at the University of Ottawa's Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy (IFSD), calls StatsCan data the closest thing Canadians have to the «gospel truth.»

«To explain this, the economists point to the «visibility effect» — that appointing a celebrity helps draw the attention of investors to a company which, all else being equal, increases demand for its shares and thus its share price,» noted The Economist in 2010, when the study was released.

In a study issued this week (Aug. 11 - 15), Goldman Sachs Bank USA economists Eli Hackle and Hui Shan showed that the homeownership rate of young adults, ages 25 - 34, who were carrying more than $ 50,000 in student, was 8 percentage points lower than for college graduates with less than $ 50,000 in student debt.

In a recent study that de-emphasized the impact of NAFTA on the U.S. economy, economists David Autor (MIT), David Dorn (University of Zurich) and Gordon Hanson (University of California, San Diego) stress the role of China's emergence on job growth and wages in the U.S..

A 2016 study by economists and Uber data experts found that when Uber alerted passengers that fares had doubled — part of Uber's older «surge pricing» scheme — ride purchases immediately fell by about 40 %.

One study by economist Elaine McCrate found that any reduction in wages associated with the benefit of flexibility is modest at best and, in fact, many jobs with greater flexibility have higher wages.137 Furthermore, the volatility of earnings for many independent contractors would offset any compensating wage differentials, because workers can not compare the value of flexibility to higher earnings when they aren't able to predict their earnings as independent contractors.138

The late MIT economist Rudiger Dornbusch made an extensive study of the results of populist economic programmes around the world, finding that while they sometimes had immediate positive results, over the medium - and long - term they were catastrophic for the working class in whose name they were launched.

To make sense of what's really behind the fluctuations in the market, we are joined by economist Michael Hudson, president of the Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends, a Wall Street financial analyst and author...

Jaison R. Abel is an economist and Richard Deitz a research officer in the Microeconomic and Regional Studies Function of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

James Orr is a research officer and Giorgio Topa a senior economist in the Microeconomic and Regional Studies Function of the Research and Statistics Group.

«Repatriations did not lead to an increase in domestic investment, employment or R. & D., even for the firms that lobbied for the tax holiday stating these intentions,» concluded the study, which was conducted by a team of three economists that included a former Bush administration official.

One of the most fortunate events in my life was to study under four brilliant economists at Stanford, who also formed my dissertation committee - Ronald McKinnon, an influential and original scholar in international economics; Thomas Sargent, a leading «rational expectations» theorist; John Taylor, also a «rational expectations» macroeconomist (currently serving in the Bush administration, and a leading candidate to succeed Alan Greenspan at the Fed, according to the Wall Street Journal), and Robert Hall, who heads the official Recession Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

In another important study, Pu Shen, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas, tracked the performance of 5 market - timing portfolios.

An analysis by University of Chicago Law School economists David S. Evans, Howard Chang, and Steven Joyce entitled «The Impact of the U.S. Debit Card Interchange Fee Regulation on Consumer Welfare: An Event Study Analysis» quantifies just how much consumers are expected to lose, rather than gain, from The Durbin amendment.

Robert C. Merton, the Nobel laureate economist at Harvard and a co-writer of the paper on derivatives with Mr. Draghi, says that in addition to exploring how countries might use derivatives to mitigate their risks, their study examined how markets habitually underestimate the risk of contagion.

George Ford, chief economist for the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Public Policy Studies, said EPB got the equivalent of $ 2,000 per customer in federal subsidies to build its citywide fiber optic network Ford said other government - owned utilities, such as one in Bristol, Va., have gotten $ 7,000 or more per subscriber to add telecommunications services that compete against private companies such as AT&T, Comcast and Charter Communications.

Economists have analyzed extensively how platform markets may pose unique challenges for antitrust analysis.377 Specifically, they stress that analysis applicable to firms in single - sided markets may break down when applied to two - sided markets, given the distinct pricing structures and network externalities.378 These studies often focus on the challenge that two - sided platforms face in attracting both sides — the classic coordination problem of having to attract buyers without an established line of sellers, and vice versa.379 Economists tend to conclude that — given the particular challenges of two - sided markets380 — antitrust should be forgiving of conduct that might otherwise be characterized as anticompetitive.381

In a 2014 study examining the career paths of more than 34,000 current and former regulators, New York Fed economists showed there was a revolving door, but not necessarily driven by the quid - pro-quo that critics are focused on.

However, there is no evidence that broad - based tax cuts can pay for themselves completely, and economic studies from across the spectrum have found that deficit - financed tax cuts only pay for a fraction of their cost (including from the Congressional Budget Office and other economists).

Economists Grace Lordan of the London School of Economics and David Neumark of UC Irvine studied 35 years of government census data for their working paper, which was released in August, titled «People Versus Machines: The Impact of Minimum Wages on Automatable Jobs.»

Milka Kirova, Swiss Re senior economist and co-author of the study, says: «Mortality protection is lacking in many American families and the growing protection gap is a worrisome trend for individuals and society alike.»

AMY GOODMAN: Michael Hudson, economist, president of the Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends, distinguished research professor of economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City, author of Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire.

A very important recent study from two Bank of England economists suggests that on a global basis neutral real rates are unlikely to rise much if at all in the next few years.

We were curious about how it looks to the crew and the passengers in third class, so we made some calls to union leaders, anti-poverty activists, and various economists and historians who make it their business to study big business without being part of the action.»

His other professional acknowledgments include: Institute for Management Studies — Lifetime Achievement Award (one of only two ever awarded), American Management Association - 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years, BusinessWeek — 50 great leaders in America, Wall Street Journal — top ten executive educators, Forbes — five most - respected executive coaches, Leadership Excellence — top five thinkers on leadership, Economic Times (India)-- top CEO coaches of America, Economist (UK)-- most credible executive advisors in the new era of business, National Academy of Human Resources — Fellow of the Academy (America's top HR award), World HRD Congress — 2011 global leader in HR thinking, Fast Company — America's preeminent executive coach, and Leader to Leader Institute — 2010 Leader of the Future Award.

Not being an economist it's my impression that scholars studying developing economies usually use developed economies as a rough baseline for determining the degree of development for developing economies, and in relation the degree of over or under - investment.

However, economic studies from across the spectrum have found that deficit - financed tax cuts only pay for a fraction of their cost (including from the Congressional Budget Office and other economists).

Economists study the production and distribution of resources, goods, and services by collecting and analyzing data, researching trends, and evaluating economic issues.

Economists also work for international organizations, research firms, and think tanks, where they study and analyze a variety of economic issues.

In the words of economists Jason Matthew DeBacker, Bradley Heim, Shanthi Ramnath, and Justin Ross, who studied the change, «the behavioral responses were overwhelmingly tax avoidance rather than real supply side responses.»

James Rickards does a great job of explaining about the different studies of finance from economist like; John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman, to just name a few.