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...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
....**** But this paper by Alvaredo et al notes that wid.world is being expanded, and meanwhile its case studies of individual countries — where they differ with the survey-based data — are useful to consider...
...A second study, Jones et al. (2011), analyzed a treatment for localized prostate cancer (an early stage of prostate cancer with a five-year survival rate on the order of 80 percent)....
...His mission is to decode the bland platitudes of the so-called disrupters (Airbnb, Uber et al) whose “utopian” business models threaten to unleash social forces that we can barely comprehend....
...Post-closing cock-ups have also popped up recently in the fight between Arconic and hedge fund Elliott as well as a few years ago when Al Jazeera America bought Al Gore’s Current TV....
...Bussière et al. (2013) show that sharp drops in investment across countries in 2009 explain on average about one third of the large declines in trade that year, as compared with only 4 percent for consumption...
...This mismatch between what workers seek and what the job market offers may lead them to leave the labor force through a separate channel from real wage declines (Babcock et al. 2012)....
...And here is the lengthy background from Sweeney et al....
...Brennan et al went back to survey the participants six months after the move and found not only that they were still unhappy with their new office, but that their team relations had broken down even further...
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...As Grabner et al. (2011) argue, it is likely that humans recognize chairs not simply by comparing candidate objects to statistically probable feature sets but also by reasoning about the attributes of the...
...FURTHER FURTHER READING - How Google et al are legitimising the robotics business with their purchases. - The FT’s Pinterest with Big Interviews. - Introducing AirPnP....
...To our knowledge, there are only a few, limited estimates of the benefits of these regulations, eg Cheshire and Sheppard (2002) and Glaeser et al (2005), both of which suggest that the welfare costs of regulation...
...al didn’t get bailed out....
...The major effect of extended benefits is redistributive, providing income to job losers who would have exited the labor force otherwise (consistent with Card et al. 2007)....
...This incongruity in responses is likely a consequence of households being highly indebted with debt leading up to the Great Recession, and a greater push by them to deleverage since then (Chakrabarti et...
...On the flip side, one study (Chen et al., 2011) concluded that the inflationary consequences of QE1 and QE2 were less than 50bps....
...Buonanno et al. add another explanation: there was a high demand for protection in those areas in which citrus crops and sulphur mining were the most important economic activities....
...It is thus exceptionally hard for Boehner et. al. to argue that they have a significant mandate for dramatic spending cuts and a rejection of any tax rises....
...DNA profiling has shown that Pignola Valtellinese and Pignolo from Friuli are completely distinct (Fossati et al. 2001; Salmaso et al. 2008)....
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...Dimson et al have concluded that there is no stable relationship between growth and equity returns, as shown in Exhibit 2....
...And given the enormous political pressures that have come to bear on Bernanke et al since QE2 was announced, this should ease them a bit....
.... … – Second, already-low inflation might well inhibit further disinflation because of downward nominal rigidities, which appear to be common in wage-setting (see Akerlof et al. 1996 and Benigno and Ricci...
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