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Like the radicals, the neo-Keynesians did not engage their challengers with empirical testing.
The issue is an empirical one.
The historical dynamics and empirical evidence from Asia are overwhelming.
The historical dynamics and empirical evidence in respect to anti-globalization and closed societies clearly indicate negative outcomes.
They buttress their argument with empirical work that suggests that growth in developing countries has become progressively more dependent on China’s economic performance.
This ambiguity explains why it has proved difficult to establish a clear empirical relationship between employment protection and labor-market performance, despite the enthusiasm of many economists and policymakers for flexibility-enhancing reforms.
While the effects of trade liberalization on growth are well established on both theoretical and empirical grounds, the question of what open trade can do for the cause of global income equality is less well understood.
Because of a lack of empirical evidence, it is too early to say that these obstacles are binding constraints.
Two high-profile economic-research initiatives provide compelling empirical evidence to support the UN summit’s message.
But, as an empirical matter, these fears are hard to understand.
Finally, the widely assumed correlation between monetary policy and currency values does not stand up to empirical examination.
That is not a theory or an empirical regularity.
In new empirical research, Alma Cohen, Charles C.Y. Wang, and I show how stock markets have learned to price anti-takeover provisions.
Indeed, America owes its current system of “technocracy” – which ensures that policymaking follows sound analysis and empirical evidence – more to Rivlin than to any other living human.
And she predicted that empirical evidence and expert knowledge will still carry substantial – if not full – weight in decision-making by legislators, presidents, and their advisers.
The same empirical objection applies to arguments that blame low interest rates on the increasing concentration of income and wealth.
We are far from having clear agreement on the color of policies today, even with the best data, models, and empirical work.
As for fiscal measures, the empirical evidence suggests that three-quarters of consumption is based on longer-term economic prospects, not short-run disposable income.
It is time to confront alternative theories of secular stagnation with empirical evidence, as I have done.
Such realistic models, based on empirical research in psychology and the neurosciences, would allow societies to cultivate their sense of compassion and build a new kind of “caring economics” that reflects more fully what it is to be human.
There is little empirical doubt about the positive impact of FDI inflows.
Empirical research also confirms the positive impact of EU structural funds on growth.
But empirical evidence on this point is practically nonexistent; the econometric model of the Commission simply assumes that this is true, and that’s that.
The SPI thus provides a systematic, empirical foundation to guide strategy for inclusive growth.
Economists use different methods to analyze fiscal issues: stylized analytical models; macroeconometric models fitted to aggregate data, such as those used by the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and the US Congressional Budget Office (CBO); empirical estimation of key parameters, such as spending multipliers; vector autoregressions; and historical studies.
A difference of opinion that rested on different judgments about how the world works, which could (and ultimately was) resolved by empirical research, you might say.
For this difference in means, tactics, and empirical judgments rested on top of deep gulf in Keynes’s and Friedman’s moral philosophy.
But new empirical studies show otherwise: growing economies benefit the poor not because wealth “trickles down,” but because growth “pulls up” those at the bottom.
To see why, suppose that in 1930 an economist conducted an empirical study of what cured infectious diseases, and, analyzing masses of data from previous years, concluded that 98% of all treatable illnesses were cured by non-antibiotic medicines – “tradicines,” which include all traditional medicines of various schools.
Backed by evidence from large empirical studies, some claim that belief in religion is good because it boosts economic performance.
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