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Economists usually split down the total spending into four major headings when researching the course of fluctuations or evaluating policy proposals: (a) consumption expenditure; (b) capital...
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Probability Causation
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Linking inflation and fiscal stance
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Excessive debts; debt financing and unsustainable growth: A contest in developing world.
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In early 20 century most of the world major fisheries are depleted or decline, tropical forest are continues to shrink at 30 million acres per year, ground water withdrawals continues to deplete...
13 February 2019 6,865 3 View
correlates of health, environmental hazard and toxins.
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any new evidence on this subject?
09 February 2019 7,822 18 View
energy crises in the face human demand.
06 February 2019 6,509 7 View
Conventional economic progress fails to meet the needs pf many millions of people today and compromises the ability of the future generations to meet theirs.
06 February 2019 7,128 18 View
Still on research Ethics
06 February 2019 9,596 4 View
Someday cars might talk to each other to coordinate traffic patterns. Malikopoulos and collaborators from Boston University recently developed a solution to control and minimize energy consumption...
19 January 2019 1,392 7 View
The human race has achieved distinction in fields of culture, traditions, beliefs and inventions, but has grossly failed to secure their future or even plan for it by ignoring the signs nature has...
19 January 2019 5,106 3 View
Still on Bayesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Analysis.
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Estimating volatility in the extended GARCH models.
19 January 2019 940 5 View
North Korea nuclear program gave always been subject of immense debate among the world superpowers. Many negotiations have been made but proof abortive. How then can war be averted in the face of...
19 January 2019 4,254 0 View
The accelerator effect happens when an increase in national income (GDP) results in a proportionately larger rise in capital investment spending. In other words, we often see a surge in capital...
19 January 2019 675 1 View
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has identified carbon capture as a key component in reducing carbon dioxide emissions and maintaining the planet's average temperature within 2...
19 January 2019 7,674 3 View
The main premise of the SFA approach is a recognition that whether allDMUs are efficient or not is an empirical question that can and should be statistically tested against the data, while...
19 January 2019 1,696 2 View
Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models to evaluate monetary policy rules anchored in rich micro-foundations have become a popular tool for macroeconomic analysis in recent years...
19 January 2019 7,112 5 View
Policy, delivery and means of achieving it.
13 January 2019 5,041 3 View
The President of the United States has available certain powers that may be exercised in the event that the nation is threatened by crisis, exigency, or emergency circumstances (other than natural...
13 January 2019 8,758 0 View
Institutional difficulties has been one of the prominent challenges in policy making among the countries of the world. The explanation to the components of this institutional variables can be...
11 January 2019 7,776 0 View
Studies that seek to forecast stock price movements often consider measures of market sentiment or stock return momentum as predictors. Recent research shows that a multiplicative combination of...
07 January 2019 7,008 7 View
There is no reason to believe that inclusiveness affects the sustainability of growth patterns only in developing countries, though the specific dynamics depend on a number of factors. For...
05 January 2019 5,121 4 View
It is certainly true that serious action against climate change will require giving decarbonization needs the highest priority. In that sense, economic growth as an objective will have to recede....
04 January 2019 2,052 18 View
Studies have show that human activities has severe implication on the environment. Analysis have show that the environment believe is treated unjust and is set out to retaliate and frustrate...
17 December 2018 5,373 1 View
Technically, misery index was introduced ro measure the economic health of United Srate in in the 1970s. The components are unemployment and inflation. But today attempt has been made incorporate...
27 November 2018 4,680 10 View
A Gaussian mixture model is a probabilistic model that assumes all the data points are generated from a mixture of a finite number of Gaussian distributions with unknown parameters. One can think...
21 November 2018 4,035 2 View
Thinking of the mind as a network within and upon which our psychological process operates gives us a profound insight into the functioning of the mind and behaviour which fundamentally changes...
01 January 1970 3,292 6 View
The psychology school once argued that the architect of the controllable "Skinner box" and programmed learning. Their key tent is that observable behaviour may be scientifically studied. So, we...
01 January 1970 8,049 8 View
If economic theory is about stripping a problem down to its absolute essentials, and deriving meaningful insights from those essentials. Then, how do we reconciled the game of resources allocation?
01 January 1970 9,439 3 View
"The more the economists, the worst the economy" The disagreement in theories, model as well as methodology among economists and policymaker has been a subject of inquiry in recent time. The...
01 January 1970 6,296 74 View
The ignorance of prior is sometimes called diffuse, uniform or non informative prior. It opposite is called informative. Sometimes, prior is constructed from the data themselves, by using the data...
01 January 1970 615 6 View
The reason for the question is to verify the essentials of the parameters estimated to prediction and theoretical considerations.
01 January 1970 1,031 36 View
if the role of academic institution is to produce knowledge, does it influence highest salary priority or prestige.....
01 January 1970 5,249 3 View
To some, solar is the greatest hope of everyone. To many nuclear energy is unnecessary. to few baseload, variability and uncertainty. Then, we ask if solar will be the energy picture in the next...
01 January 1970 7,690 16 View
DSGE model has now become the hallmark of policy antidote. The macroeconomists now feels intimidated that the legacy and the traditional belief no longer hold. Many efforts to persuade the...
01 January 1970 7,828 19 View
Is there any correlates between minimisation of global carbon tax and maximisation of US carbon emission tax: Why?
01 January 1970 2,314 3 View
Today announced that he will be stepping down from his position after more than six years in which the institution’s shareholders provided strong support to multiple initiatives to ensure that the...
01 January 1970 1,721 2 View
The claim that the central banks is responding insufficiently to the shocks hitting the economy rests on the assumption that policy is made with complete certainty about the effects of policy on...
01 January 1970 821 2 View
The person responsible for endowing the tenancy to the life tenant is usually the owner of the real estate, the ownership of which is governed by a fee simple absolute.
01 January 1970 9,212 3 View
This general background suggests a simultaneous increase in minimum wages and tax increase has severe implication on citizen welfare. Colleagues what is your thought on this argument.
01 January 1970 2,029 5 View
At the heart of the Eggertsson-Woodford argument is the idea that economic slack increases with the real interest rate, which is the nominal short-term interest rate minus the expected future...
01 January 1970 1,305 7 View
After 100 years of inflation targeting, it appears that monetary policy has failed to normalized the economy. However, contemporary economists have argued that we should generate inflation and...
01 January 1970 2,640 14 View
Many studies have claimed that ecological footprint is not a true reflection of ecosystem. Possibly, its merely seen as a measure of productivity.
01 January 1970 4,164 13 View
Earlier theories advocate for the open economy to close the gap in trade deficit and embrace globalization. Recently, many advocates of globalization are now building blocks against trade. what...
01 January 1970 1,259 32 View
Central banks enjoy significant ‘franchise value’ through their monopoly to print money. Thus some researchers state that currency at the central bank plays a financial role very similar to capital.
01 January 1970 2,191 3 View
DSGE Model and Financial Market Friction.....
01 January 1970 5,872 2 View
If we presumed that specification of models require creativity. Then, there are some results from our analysis that are already obvious. for few we deny that presumption does not mean exact and...
01 January 1970 6,666 6 View
This morning I wake up to review the Brexit and US-China Trade war. Then, I ponder on the John Maynard Keynes - Harry White debates on proposal to form the world bank group( IMF, WTO, World...
01 January 1970 9,320 13 View
During the Central Economic Work Conference this month, China decided to keep monetary policy "prudent and neutral" and ensure stable liquidity in 2017. There will be more emphasis on preventing...
01 January 1970 5,435 10 View
Today, the Kalman fitter is used to create an optimal estimate of state given the knowledge of the parameter. Does it implies that location of a satellite can be used for noisy measurements.
01 January 1970 2,736 0 View
On a daily basis am often attacked by econometrician who keep asking the question above. The truth they failed to realise is that despite controversy on my DSGE modelling adventure, the...
01 January 1970 2,118 5 View
The fact that the borrowing and lending in our MONETARY model is in nominal terms means that the CENTRAL BANKs may be able to replace the missing state-contingency with appropriate price level...
01 January 1970 265 6 View
As inequality involves substantial economic, social and political costs. The crucial issue of how to measure inequality has been a major challenge. Many existing literature have linked the quality...
01 January 1970 4,451 4 View
From a macroeconomic perspective, the stance of federal fiscal policy can be summarized by movements in the primary deficit as a share of GDP. The primary deficit is the difference between federal...
01 January 1970 5,537 6 View
Thinking a new breakthrough...
01 January 1970 8,636 0 View
lack of energy and slow growth
01 January 1970 1,138 1 View
Economists search for truth has over the years given rise to the view that economists are people searching in a dark room for non existent black cat. Econometrician are regular accused of finding...
01 January 1970 159 1 View
Some reflection on the dilemma of modeless regularities....The football coach who select 10 players on the pitch of play instead of 11 already knows the outcome before meeting the opponents....
01 January 1970 4,584 4 View
Even when computer simulation has been used to validate experimental model. some biologists still query the relationship upon which the computer simulation is based and the biological reality.
01 January 1970 1,927 1 View
Mainstream economics has been running the gauntlet of adverse criticism for decades. These critiques claim as a message of central importance that mainstream economics has lost its relevance for...
01 January 1970 4,856 0 View
productive capacity and resources usage!
01 January 1970 2,288 1 View
Discussion focus on insensitivity to violation of the relevant assumption underlying the application of econometrics methods.
01 January 1970 3,154 4 View
Economics involves understanding human behaviour in economic decision-making situations and in markets. People are complicated beings, and we must make simplifying assumptions if we are to build...
01 January 1970 7,779 47 View
When a financial crisis hits, countries with a high debt-to-GDP ratio are less likely to pursue expansionary policy.
01 January 1970 2,478 6 View
Gustav Cassel (1992) argued that willingness to pay a certain price for foreign money must ultimately and essentially be due to the fact that this money possesses a purchasing power as against...
01 January 1970 5,383 4 View
