the psychology lens homo economicus meets homo sapiens

... Prices The Austrian Business Cycle Theory Integrating the Macro Lenses vii TOC.indd vii 1/29/11 12:21:40 PM viii Contents Chapter The Psychology Lens: Homo economicus Meets Homo sapiens 45 The Study ... Catches the Flu The Boombustology of the Asian Financial Crisis The Multilens Look Chapter 10 The U.S Housing Boom and Bust: The Homeowner’s Society Creates the People’s Panic 173 “Safe as Houses” The ... such, the second part of the book applies the five lenses to five case studies to generate a “bubble-spotting” theory The cases chosen (Tulipmania, the Great Depression, the Japanese bubble, the...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2014, 19:17

... structure, the AFC, rather than private investors, provided the initial development funding for many projects, with the FFC ‗topping up‘ the funding once the AFC hurdle had been cleared Consequently, the ... a joint-venture studio with the Australian company Village-Roadshow in 1987, one factor in the latter‘s favour was the $AUD7.5 million loan patched together by the then Queensland Film Corporation, ... all lower And they want us more They are very embracing when we come to them (Ulich and Simmens 2001: 361) In Australia, the debate about runaway productions such as The Matrix and the second Star...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:20

... recalled because of the presence of tin caused by the acidity of the drink reacting with the tin coating of the cans (FDA, 1988a,b) The product had been packaged in the wrong container There were 10 ... need not include the time; (3) The signature or initials of the person performing the operation or creating the record; and (4) Where appropriate, the identity of the product and the production ... that have a bearing on the safety of the Þnished product The reliability of these assumptions over the intervals between inspections can create questions about the adequacy of the system FDA’s inspections...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 21:20

... roads perform the required inspections Each state then collects the inspection reports for all bridges in the state and submits them annually to the FHWA, where they are entered into the National ... programs The NBI is also used as the basis for a biennial report on the condition of the nation’s bridges The Secretary of Transportation is required by law to submit this report to Congress2 The ... maintaining the NBI is to monitor the condition of bridges carrying public highways Therefore, for funding and reporting purposes, the FHWA considers only structures meeting the following criteria: • The...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 20:15

... in the FFS we use mothers’ reports of whether they have at least one close friend; whether they feel alone; and whether they know most of their neighbors In the MCS, mothers report whether their ... for the total sample, as well as across nativity groups The size of the foreign-born sample is comparable in the two surveys: 17% in the FFS and 14% in the MCS In the U.S., about 6% of mothers ... 43% of U.S.-born mothers are not living with the father at the time of the child’s birth, compared to 18% of non-Hispanic immigrant mothers and 25% of Hispanic immigrant mothers These differences...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... toward the intendedness of pregnancies based on their own reports (13) + Of all births in the years before interview, 55 percent were intended by both the mother and the father (as reported by the ... Table 15 shows the percentages of parous women who were married to or living with the father of their first child + Three in five parous women (60 percent) were married to the father of their first ... unintended at the time of conception by both the mother and the father, by mother’s age at birth: United States, 2002 births to women 30–44 years of age at delivery (figure 10) The NSFG has regularly...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20

... each of the two crises The US crisis was the first to emerge The slowdown in real estate prices and the consequent downturn experienced after 2006 led to uncertainty in the value of the mortgage ... not feel the full force of the turmoil until the collapse of Lehman Brothers sent shock waves through international financial markets The drying up of liquidity exposed the fragility of the Irish ... account deficits during the pre-crisis run-up period The U.S had this experience in the period prior to the crisis In the case of Ireland, the capital bonanza was mediated by the Irish commercial...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 14:20

... the tax credit from 1997 to 2008, the most recent year for which data are available The two measures are the “tax expenditure” (the impact of the credit on the federal budget as reported by the ... Whereas the benefit-cost ratio shows the ratio of the dollar values of incremental R&D to the tax costs of the credit, the price elasticity of R&D provides a measure of their proportional values, the ... Knowledge spillovers are stronger the smaller the distance between the firm doing the R&D investment and the firms that reap the knowledge benefits, although in the Internet era, distance can be...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 03:20

... definition, the personal saving rate is simply given by the ratio between the change in the net wealth (net worth) of U.S households and their disposable income Ideally, the change in the value of the ... excluded, the implied personal saving rate is actually even lower than the official rate reported by the BEA.14 Other Issues with the NIPA Measures of the Personal Saving Rate Economists and the financial ... fact, if computing the personal saving rate on the basis of durables only were the correct choice, then the reported personal saving rate could be at least 10 percent higher On the other hand, Figure...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... headquartered in other parts of the world Thus, the consolidation of the U.S aerospace industry appears to be evolving in the direction of greater globalization, with both the structure and the characteristics ... “science” includes the social sciences and psychology as well as the physical, information, and mathematical sciences 3For comparison purposes, the U.S Bureau of the Census estimates that the proportion ... given the need for the United States to safeguard its defense technology in the interests of national security? Second, what is the effect of the regulatory reforms undertaken beginning in the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 11:20

... However, there could be significant differences The problem is that the Chinese might not understand the “rules of the game” the way the United States does That is one interpretation of both the crude ... created many of the graphics Alaida Rodriguez made further revisions to the text Emily Rogers did the painstaking work of making corrections to the final version of the text and completing the document ... confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States was the central reality in world politics With the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the world continues to evolve toward...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 11:20

... Headquarters) The hiring committee does not set a work schedule for the interns Instead, the interns set their schedules with their supervisor once they start work How many weeks I need to work? In the ... dates at the top of this page are for the Washington, DC program See below for information about the regional offices, including the divisions and offices for which they accept interns, their application ... educations Students interested in the OIG should apply to the Headquarters using the procedure described above and highlight their preference in their cover letter The Office of Inspector General...

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Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 09:20

... Although the short-term CEAP measures were highly successful in helping the Canadian economy weather the storm caused by the global financial crisis, recent turmoil in the Eurozone, and the continued ... 2020—further threaten the viability of one-third of Canada’s social-housing stock Most low-income tenants live within the private-housing sector, and there is a need to preserve and enhance the affordability ... in the early 2000s Through the economic and housing boom of the past decade, to 2008, vacancies gradually increased from 1.7% in 2002 to 3.0% by late 2009 (weighted national rate) The rate then...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:20

... measure a .the straightened height of the entire plant (from the ground to the top of the tallest plant structure) in meters, b .the number of seed heads within the sample frame, c .the height of the ... collected The standard deviation indicates the degree of variation in seed weight and is, therefore, a measure of precision (see example) the larger the SD, the lower the precision of the estimate The ... (“stretch”) to keep the top of the plant above the water surface, the water can be raised to kill the lateral meristems for some distance up the stem After the impoundment is drained, the coffeebean...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 12:20

... described by each of the models The estimated coefficients indicate differences between the region and the reference group, the Northeast region, which were consistent across all of the estimated models ... coefficients on the variables for the Upper Midwest, Corn Belt, Southwest, and West regions indicates that all cost levels were lower in these regions than in the Northeast Only the Southeast region ... because other differences between these farms, such as their size, location, other technologies, and management, may also influence cost levels To isolate the effect that choice of the organic...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 05:20

... data discrepancies There may be others They are listed by player, event, and year There also are complications with players’ names Over the years there have been many players with the same or similar ... following the name are (earlier) or (later) Such indicates that the player is either earlier or later in elapsed years from another player with the same name For some players, parentheses following the ... different scores The “official records” used as the primary reference sources for this book are the annual Media Guides produced by the Masters Tournament and the PGA Championship, the “Record Books”...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 08:20

... states in the 1970s and 1980s and then by the federal government in the 1990s, led to a substantial consolidation of the U.S banking industry By 2009, the number of commercial banks in the United ... divided by the number of private firms in existence in the fourth quarter of the prior year Data on bankruptcy filings are from the Administrative Office of the United States Courts Data on the number ... commercial property values The removal of these tax shelters “helped to send the industry into a downward spiral,” which was “at the forefront of many of the banking problems of the 1980s and early...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a ... secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the ... by the Academy, the Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:20

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:20