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Empirical studies estimate that the overall impact of a weaker US dollar on the trade balance is close to zero.
The long-term pain treatment with the strongest empirical support involves lifestyle modifications such as exercise, stress reduction, and weight loss – all of which require significant time and effort.
Empirical models that try to quantify the impact of exchange rate changes suggest that without an aggressive monetary policy response, a 40 % euro appreciation would knock 2.5% off European growth.
So-called “evidence-based medicine” entails a hierarchy of empirical proof that ranks medical studies according to their quality.
And, as an excellent recent empirical study shows, “by 2007, banks in most countries had turned primarily into real estate lenders.”
I’m an impractical bookish Harvard-trained empirical labor economist, while Betsey is an impractical and bookish Harvard-trained empirical labor economist.
Recent empirical evidence suggests that the central and eastern European regions benefiting most from EU membership are those around the country’s capital city or sharing a border with one of the 15 countries.
Whether exclusion from these connections can deter would-be tyrants and their henchmen is an empirical question.
There is simply little or no empirical evidence that inflation, at the low to moderate rates that have prevailed in recent decades, has any significant harmful real effects on output, employment, growth, or the distribution of income.
He then cited empirical work suggesting that financial deepening is useful only in the early stages of economic development, evidence of a negative correlation between financial deepening and real investment, and the withering conclusion of Adair Turner, Britain’s former top financial regulator: “There is no clear evidence that the growth in the scale and complexity of the financial system in the rich developed world over the last 20 to 30 years has driven increased growth or stability.”
In the United States, for example, insiders enjoy protections from takeovers that, according to a substantial body of empirical evidence, actually decrease company value.
This conclusion is itself based on empirical analysis.
Decision science, which combines understanding of behavior with universal principles of coherent decision-making, limits these risks by pairing empirical data with expert knowledge.
It is fully understandable – and largely supported by empirical evidence – that these CEOs would want good results to occur on their watch, rather than after their successor takes over.
These policymakers, with little empirical evidence, believe that fiscal prudence today will lead to a stronger economy tomorrow.
Moreover, our empirical understanding of how migration interacts with development was limited at the time; there was little data with which to shape measurable goals.
This crude recipe is based on little economic theory or empirical evidence; there is no reason to expect that regardless of the source of inflation , the best response is to increase interest rates.
Indeed, empirical research suggests that countries without explicit or implicit access to liquidity tend to hold much higher reserves than the privileged few – only to be blamed by the same privileged few for contributing to global imbalances by hoarding excess reserves.
They view him as a man who trusts his instincts more than empirical evidence, who prays as a way of making policy, who doesn't recognize his mistakes in Iraq, and who listens to his inner voice instead of to what other countries have to say.
But, for now, I find the empirical evidence, international comparisons, time-series studies, and studies of local variation within the United States compelling in suggesting that fiscal policy works.
In the ensuing decades – even as China grew and modernized – Western thinkers treated this self-indulgent delusion as an empirical certainty.
But, while allowing the EFSF to finance buybacks is a step forward, a slew of theoretical and empirical research, generated by developing countries’ efforts to buy back their debt in the 1980’s and 1990’s, has shown that it is far from a cure-all.
The analytical case for this belief is strong, but the empirical evidence is weak.
Yet most empirical studies conclude that, at least within the range of income-tax rates in the US during the last several decades, these effects are negligible.
In recent years, however, neither economic theory nor empirical evidence has been kind to the presumed tradeoff.
Early this year, economists at the International Monetary Fund produced empirical results that seemed to upend the old consensus.
In fact, empirical evidence shows that in many cases, further reducing carbon-dioxide emissions might help to make industries more competitive.
But empirical research reveals a fundamental problem with this argument: China’s TFP has grown at an average annual rate of nearly 4% since Deng’s reforms began.
After all, they express their ideas with mathematics and arrive at quantitative estimates of implied relationships from empirical data.
Economic policy initiatives are often taken without all the empirical pre-testing that could have been done.
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