Sentences with phrase «understanding economic behavior»

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But as Temin and Vines show, history is much more usefully seen as the evolution of often complex institutions — financial, political, legal, cultural, and so on — through which economic behavior is mediated and which affect the ways in which recurring patterns of finance, commerce and trade unfold, and that without an understanding of history we lose so much complexity in our models that we often end up making very obvious mistakes.

This measure is simply net income divided by Economic Capital, but it is quite revealing in terms of understanding bank business models and behavior.

There is obviously a measure of truth in this understanding of human beings in their economic behavior.

This course will survey current understanding of the social behavior and decision making of humans and other animals, from psychological, economic, and ethological perspective; the neurobiology of friendship, social connection, and cooperation; the neurobiology of theory of mind and strategic behavior; disorders affecting social decision making and their biological basis; and applications of social neuroscience to business, including marketing, management and organizational design, leadership and team - building, negotiation, and trading.

People and socio - economic factors have been blamed for environmental degradation, but we have not routinely taken a gendered approach to understanding environmental behaviors or to shaping campaigns and strategies.

4) The way I understand the FOMC's behavior at present, is that they will drop rates hard for a time, and then remove policy accommodation dramatically once normal economic activity resumes.

Los Angeles, June 25, 2009 - While over five million jobs were lost in the past few months as a result of the recession, Animal Behavior College understands why the pet industry has proven resilient during tough economic times.

«Global game companies, hardware providers, and others must take the time to understand the Chinese market and Chinese gamer's motivations, behavior, demands, and economic reality in order to build games and products that will soar to the top of the charts.»

Global game companies, hardware providers, and others must take the time to understand the incredibly complicated Chinese mobile games market and Chinese gamers» motivations, behavior, demands, and economic reality in order to build games and products that will soar to the top of the charts.

Simply improving messaging in accordance with recommendations of psychologists or following the recommendations of economists to create economic incentives to engage in less GHG producing behavior will not likely create strong citizen support for climate change policies unless citizens better understand that the narrative created by opponents of climate change policies about high levels of scientific uncertainty and unacceptable harm to the economy from the adoption of climate policies is not only false but has been manufactured by fossil fuel companies and other entities which have economic interests in continuing high levels of fossil fuel consumption.

The various kinds of research undertaken by an anthropologist revolves around activities such as study of social, economic and behavior of human beings, understanding culture, customs, values, habits of human beings, research earlier biological evidence for better understanding of modern day living etc..

Increased understanding about how environmental variations, such as socio - economic disparities, affect human brain development and behavior has significant implications for advancing basic scientific questions such as understanding genetic versus environmental contributions of brain and behavioral development.

A focus of his research has been toward understanding the public costs associated with behavior disorders, which has included authoring several publications on the potential economic value of effective efforts to improve developmental outcomes in children and youth.

Investors who strive to get an in - depth understanding of the generational consumer segments, as well as how to cater to the economic context, consumer behavior and preferences of each unique generation will be sure to get a leg up over competitors.