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So the only rational response is to research aggressively into the many unknown factors: the physics of cloud formation, the dynamic coupling of the upper stratosphere to the lower atmosphere, the accumulation of atmospheric water vapor.
While economic data suggests that improvement in fundamentals has occurred - the risk of a near depression has been reduced; the prospects of the global recession bottoming out by year end are increasing; and risk sentiment is improving - it is equally clear that other, less sustainable factors are also playing a role.
But some of this increase is driven by more worrisome factors: the effects of large budget deficits and debt on sovereign risk, and thus on real interest rates; and concerns that the incentive to monetize these large deficits will lead to high inflation after the global economy recovers in 2010-11 and deflationary forces abate.
A recent CBO analysis attributes about one-half of the decline in the LFPR from the end of 2007 to the end of 2013 to these cyclical factors, with the remainder explained by secular demographic trends.
A sensible framework for doing so must account for several key factors.
There also seem to be other factors at play that are not yet fully understood.
But these factors alone do not explain the lack of material progress for most workers.
If we add up these three factors – the enormous economic challenge of reducing greenhouse gases, the complexity of climate science, and deliberate campaigns to confuse the public and discredit the science – we arrive at the fourth and over-arching problem: US politicians’ unwillingness or inability to formulate a sensible climate-change policy.
All three of these factors vanished between the world wars.
These are the real factors driving the confrontation that the Vienna negotiations are meant to defuse over the next six months.
The answer probably is a combination of these factors.
Although many factors contributed to the Savings and Loan crisis, it is generally agreed that moral hazard was a major one.
The countries at the fringe of this zone typically benefit from a range of factors that make complete elimination of malaria possible, including lower transmission of the disease, stronger health systems, and relative national wealth.
Turkey, Europe and Middle-East SecurityMany factors contributed to the French and Dutch objections to the proposed EU Constitution.
But genes are only one of many factors that influence height and age at first birth.
To be sure, WWII, like World War I, was caused by a multitude of factors; there is no standard path to war.
This is all the more worrying in view of the numerous other factors stoking social unrest and diplomatic tension, including technological disruption, a record-breaking migration crisis, anxiety over globalization, political polarization, and rising nationalism.
The reason for this confidence is hard to pin down, but it must be rooted in the public’s loss of healthy skepticism about corporate earnings, together with an absence of popular narratives that tie the increase in earnings to transient factors.
Such inflows are driven in part by short-term cyclical factors (interest-rate differentials and a wall of liquidity chasing higher-yielding assets as zero policy rates and more quantitative easing reduce opportunities in the sluggish advanced economies).
But longer-term secular factors also play a role.
This may be the right response if the inflows and upward pressure on the exchange rate are driven by fundamental factors (a current-account surplus, an undervalued currency, a large and persistent growth differential).
But, in many cases, inflows are driven by short-term factors, fads, and irrational exuberance, which can lead to an overvalued currency, the crowding out of non-traditional export sectors or import-competing sectors, a loss of competitiveness, and eventually a large current-account deficit and thus tighter external constraints on growth.
The argument for this option is that long-term secular factors are important drivers of capital inflows, as advanced-economy investors discover that they are underweight in emerging-market assets and reduce their portfolios’ “home bias.”
For example, my economic research firm has a quantitative model, updated every three months, that ranks 174 countries on more than 200 economic, financial, political, and other factors to derive a measure or score of these countries’ medium-term attractiveness to investors.
But it was also made more probable by Germany’s fearful response to Russia’s rising power, as well as myriad other factors, including human errors.
The second missing element concerns the weight to be given to non-material factors when measuring the distribution of material rewards in richer countries as much as in poor ones.
Other factors are temporary.
So, when confronted with a growth slowdown caused by structural factors, many countries responded by lowering interest rates and stimulating credit.
Several factors make it possible that we are entering such a period.
Optimal trade intensity depends on many factors – such as relative labor costs, transport costs, productivity levels, and economy-of-scale effects.
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