How Do Auditors Behave During Periods of Market Euphoria? The Case of Internet IPOs af Weber, Joseph P., Rice, Sarah, Leone, Andrew J., Willenborg, Michael

“...The study of periods of market euphoria, such as Holland’s seventeenth-century tulip mania, England’s eighteenth-century South Sea Company, America’s nineteenth-century railroads, or, most recently, the U.S. housing market, is a topic of long-standing interest to economists. Theorists specify conditions under which market participants and institutions cause "bubbles" to arise and persist and empiricists test participant-centric or institution- centric explanations (Hong, Scheinkman, and Xiong 2008; Schultz 2008; Greenwood and Nagel 2009). ...”
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Streetscore -- Predicting the Perceived Safety of One Million Streetscapes af Raskar, Ramesh, Naik, Nikhil Deepak, Philipoom, Jade D., Hidalgo Ramaciotti, Cesar A.

“...These datasets should be useful for urban planners, economists and social scientists looking to explain the social and economic consequences of urban perception....”
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The Role of Bank Loans and Deposits in the Monetary Transmission Mechanism In Malaysia af Kassim, Salina, A. Majid, M. Shabri

“...The finding shows that both bank deposits and loans play crucial roles in the monetary transmission process in the economy, suggesting evidence for the money endogeneity theory of post-Keynesian economists. In particular, bank deposits and loans are shown to provide an important link from monetary policy to output. ...”
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Predicting surprises to GDP : a comparison of econometric and machine learning techniques af Rajkumar, Ved

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Post-crisis investment in single-family homes in Fulton County, Georgia af Call, Robert (Robert Michael)

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Reliability and competitive electricity markets af Joskow, Paul L., Tirole, Jean

“...This paper seeks to bridge the gap between economists focused on designing competitive market mechanisms and engineers focused on the physical attributes and engineering requirements they perceive as being needed for operating a reliable electric power system. ...”
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When multinational corporations misbehave: an analysis of foreign bank currency manipulation in South Africa af Gama, Lindokuhle

“...Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been touted by some economists as one of the principal ways in which the rest of the world can help the African continent achieve economic growth. ...”
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Financial reform in Malaysia - an economic analysis af Chan, Walter Kam Hon, Lim, Lee Ngoh, Tan, Sze Gar

“...Malaysia, for one, is capturing the attention of many economists and academicians due to its phenomenal economic growth achieved in the last seven years. ...”
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God Bless Singapore : Feng Shui masters' views on Singapore prosperity af Lee, Mandy

“...It compares Feng Shui masters’ explanations to various justifications provided by governement officials and economists. There is a strong desire among the Singapore populace to understand Feng Shui masters’ perspective on how Singapore is able to reach prosperity within such a short period of time, from gaining independence to today. ...”
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Distributive justice : a comparative analysis af Sulaiman, Kabuye Uthman

“...The most fundamental question 86 in the distribution of wealth and income is: What criterion or criteria should be followed to achieve distributive justice'} This question has been a big controversy among philosophers, economists. and politicians, and no conclusion has ever been reached. ...”
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Network-sensitive financial regulation af Enriques, L, Romano, A, Wetzer, T

“...Following the crisis, economists and policymakers have become increasingly aware that the structure of the financial system is a key determinant of systemic risk. ...”

Resource-use measurement based on patient recall: issues and challenges for economic evaluation. af Thorn, J, Coast, J, Cohen, D, Hollingworth, W, Knapp, M, Noble, S, Ridyard, C, Wordsworth, S, Hughes, D

“...Consensus amongst health economists has yet to be reached on many aspects of resource-use measurement. ...”

Taxing profit in a global economy af Devereux, MP, Auerbach, AJ, Keen, M, Oosterhuis, P, Schön, W, Vella, J

“...The book is authored by group of economists and lawyers—the Oxford International Tax Group, chaired by Michael Devereux. ...”

Suboptimality and efficiency in human decision-making af Li, CL

“...In the past few decades, psychologists and economists notably reveal that human decisions deviate from normative principles when the decisions are made in a context, and protest against one another about whether humans are suboptimal under different considerations of suboptimality. ...”

Transport policies in Singapore af Santos, G, Li, W, Koh, W

“...Thus, the ghost that prevented the introduction of a policy supported by transport economists for over 80 years seems to have disappeared or at least, weakened....”

Adversarial competition and collusion in algorithmic markets af Rocher, L, Tournier, AJ, de Montjoye, YA

“...The deployment of automated pricing algorithms is scrutinized by economists and regulatory agencies, concerned about its impact on prices and competition. ...”

The neoliberal age? Britain since the 1970s

“...Standard accounts of neoliberalism generally focus on the influence of political ideas in reshaping British politics; according to this narrative, neoliberalism was a right-wing ideology, peddled by political economists, think-tanks and politicians from the 1930s onwards, which finally triumphed in the 1970s and 1980s. ...”

Philosophical critiques of effective altruism af McMahan, J

“...At the end I will comment briefly on criticisms of effective altruism by developmental economists. The best of these contrast with the philosophical commentaries in being expressed respectfully and in acknowledging that their disagreements are concerned with priorities and with the means of achieving shared ends....”

The evolution of technology and adaptive economic behaviour af Cooper, B

“...It is argued that the methods used by economists exploiting this analogy are often ill-suited to an economic context. ...”

Using “Big Data” in the cost-effectiveness analysis of next-generation sequencing technologies: Challenges and potential solutions af Wordsworth, S, Doble, B, Payne, K, Buchanan, J, Marshall, D, McCabe, C, Regier, D

“...Nevertheless, health economists face substantial challenges when using these data and must be cognizant of them before big data can be confidently used to produce evidence on the cost-effectiveness of NGS....”