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Critical thinking and storytelling contexts

Jabarian, Brian; Sartori, Elia - 2024 - Current version: August 1, 2024

We argue that storytelling contexts – the way information is communicated through varying credibility sources, visual designs, writing styles, and content delivery – impact the effectiveness of surveys and elections in eliciting preferences formed through critical thinking (reasoned...

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The rise of capitalism and the roots of Anti-American terrorism

Krieger, Tim; Meierieks, Daniel - 2014

, consistent with economic norms theory, higher levels of market-capitalism are associated with less anti-American terrorism …This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. Using data for 149 countries between 1970 … and 2007, this contribution, contrary to expectations from capitalist peace theory, does not find that Anti …

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Pitfalls in the use of ad valorem equivalent representations of the trade impacts of domestic policies

Whalley, John (contributor) - 2005

Numerical simulation exercises to analyze the impacts of potential changes in non-tariff policies commonly use ad valorem equivalent tariff treatment even though estimated impacts using explicit model representation and ad valorem equivalent treatments will differ. The difficulty for modellers...

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Beyond the DSGE straitjacket

Pesaran, M. Hashem; Smith, Ron - 2011

. -- macroeconometric models ; DSGE ; VARs ; long run theory …

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The cult of statistical significance

Krämer, Walter - 2010

This article takes issue with a recent book by Ziliak and McCloskey (2008) of the same title. Ziliak and McCloskey argue that statistical significance testing is a barrier rather than a booster for empirical research in many fields and should therefore be abandoned altogether. The present...

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Is Prescott right? : welfare state policies and the incentives to work, learn and retire

Jacobs, Bas (contributor) - 2008

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The fallacy of the fiscal theory of the price level, Again

Buiter, Willem H. - 2000

The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level (FTPL) rejects the fundamental 'Ricardian' proposition, that the government budget …

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Unbalanced financial globalization

Capelle, Damien; Pellegrino, Bruno - 2023

We examine the impact of the last five decades of financial globalization on world GDP and income distribution, using a novel multi-country dynamic general equilibrium model that incorporates a demand system for international assets. We introduce, estimate and validate new country-level measures...

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On the elasticity of substitution between labor and ICT and IP capital and traditional capital

Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2022

I estimate CES aggregate production functions for the US, the UK, Japan, Germany, and Spain using data from the EU KLEMS database. I distinguish between three types of capital: information and communication technologies (ICT), intellectual property (IP) capital, and traditional capital. I assume...

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What Marx means today

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2017

Marx made significant contributions to macroeconomics, laying the grounds for both Keynes's theory of aggregate demand … and Schumpeter's theory of creative destruction. His law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall parallels Alvin … Hansen's theory of secular stagnation which has recently received much attention among scholars studying the financial crises …

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