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Although neuroscientists are adept at studying pain, animal
models
fail to account for its “affective-motivational” component – that is, pain’s emotional, cognitive, and contextual features.
Indeed, the figures have been repeatedly revised, even over quite short periods of time, casting strong doubt on the validity of the economic
models
being used.
These models, and the institutions using them, rely on a built-in theory of the economy, which enables them to “assume” certain relationships.
The
models
used by all of the forecasting organizations dramatically underestimated the fiscal multiplier: the impact of changes in government spending on output.
All of these
models
assume outcomes on the basis of existing policies.
Before they can do any good, the forecasters must go back to the drawing board, and ask themselves whether the theories of the economy underpinning their
models
are the right ones.
In the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis, macroeconomists tended to assume away the financial sector in their
models
of advanced economies.
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.
The Insider Brain GainNEW YORK – Unfortunately, many new technologies and business
models
make money for investors without creating jobs for workers.
Along the way, one of its
models
is likely to work superbly well.)
Microfinance can also help SMEs transition to low-carbon business models, by financing their efforts to adopt renewable energy sources and shift to sustainable production and supply chains.
But the share of
models
developed by Chinese carmakers is negligible.
For US President Barack Obama, the breakthrough is a chance to cement his legacy as a transformative president, like his
models
Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt – even if, in ending nearly six decades of failed policy, he more closely resembles Richard Nixon, who presided over the opening to China.
Communist police disappeared from the main streets of Warsaw, yet the streets became
models
of order.
Fortunately, however, there are existing
models
to follow.
Clearly, current funding
models
stifle product-specific innovation and investment, and all but freeze out SMEs.
As to value-at-risk models, we now have inconvertible evidence they are very useful when they don’t matter and totally useless when they do matter.
Indeed, the US falls below Greece and Slovakia, countries that people do not typically regard as role
models
or as competitors with the US at the top of the league tables.
Likewise, user fees discourage the poor and elderly from accessing needed health services, whereas public funding largely eliminates inequities in the provision of care while producing health outcomes that are as good as, if not better than, mixed public-private funding
models.
This will require having the courage to face down those who would retreat behind national borders and protect existing business
models.
It led directly to the spread of financial risk-management models, which, by excluding the possibility of default, grossly underestimated the amount of risk in the system.
Developing economies that maintain their old growth
models
for too long fall into it, and China probably will hit the threshold in 3-5 years.
With the right approach, connecting people through ICT could empower women, expand access to health care, boost financial inclusion, close the gap between urban and rural areas, and open up new business models, particularly for SMEs.
Old
models
of economic growth, however, such as export orientation and selective use of import restrictions that worked well for East Asia in the last century, are less feasible under today's global trade rules.
Nobody can predict the full effects of the biggest regime change in global economic management since the 1980s; but they will surely be negative for emerging economies and multinational companies, whose development
models
and business strategies have assumed free trade and open capital flows.
That is why smart regulators charged with ensuring healthy competition, like the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, use a “sandbox” approach to enable testing of new technologies and business
models
without a crushing burden of regulation.
China and India have used very different political
models
to achieve their ambitious GDP-growth targets.
That belief, too, seems quaint in the aftermath of the credit bubble that fueled the global financial crisis, which exposed economic
models
based on rational decision-making to stinging intellectual attack from the behavioral economists.
Additional financing will likely be secured as mini-grid designs and business
models
mature.
Whereas the US is willing to spend $147 billion next year in the name of an implausible democracy in Iraq, it refuses to spend any imagination or money to shore up one of the most creative
models
of peace and democracy in the Islamic world.
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