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This phenomenon applies even to trade transactions that do not include the US.
There appears to be a link between this precipitous drop in the average duration of stock holdings and the phenomenon of the so-called “ownerless corporation,” whereby shareholders have little incentive to impose discipline on management.
For starters, a phenomenon known as premature deindustrialization is taking hold, with manufacturing growth in developing countries peaking at much lower levels of income than in the past.
In contrast, the phenomenon of dissociative amnesia supposedly entails victims’ inability to remember their traumatic experiences, not an inability to remember their entire lives or who they are.
Over and above that, two factors explain the bizarre phenomenon captured by recent opinion polls in France.
This political entity is a precise counterpart in the political world to a well-known physical phenomenon of splintering or fissuring.
It is not yet clear whether this is a temporary and reversible phenomenon or the beginning of a protracted challenge to the functioning of the global economy.
And some studies have noted a sharp rise in illicit financial flows – a phenomenon that inevitably drains money from the poorest countries.
Yet those who use the term often assume that to conceptualize a phenomenon is a first step to manipulating it.
The phenomenon is far more widespread, complex, and varied – but it is useful to focus on the more extreme cases.
According to Thiel, the key difference between this phenomenon and the rise of robots lies in consumption.
But eventually these high returns reduce the payouts to investors (Bernie Madoff may be the reduction ad absurdum of this phenomenon) and slow the growth of the sector.
A related explanation emphasizes the phenomenon that economists call hysteresis: A persistent cyclical downturn or weak recovery (like the one we have experienced since 2008) can reduce potential growth for at least two reasons.
The reality is that we don’t know for sure what is driving the productivity puzzle or whether it is a temporary phenomenon.
The unexpected weakness of the populist right in the Netherlands and the solid performance of the ruling Christian Democrats in Germany was a reflection of the same phenomenon: a new core Europe that is politically stable and self-confident.
Moreover, even assuming that the impact of a permanent cut in public expenditure on demand and output is also permanent, the GDP reduction remains a one-off phenomenon, whereas the lower deficit continues to have a positive impact on the debt level year after year.
Even a formula like "war on terror" simplifies a more complex phenomenon.
Block thinking is an age-old phenomenon, and we all do it to some degree.
They not only understood the science behind climate change, but also recognized the company’s own outsize role in driving the phenomenon.
As any economist knows, a deficit in goods and services is a macroeconomic phenomenon reflecting a country’s domestic expenditures and savings.
Though the American banking system historically featured thousands of small banks, the “too big to fail” phenomenon is not exactly new.
I recently participated in a panel discussion of this phenomenon at the American Economic Association annual meeting in Denver.
She discussed at length the appalling phenomenon of violent intolerance towards Christian communities, and cast blame on the international community and prominent NGOs for failing to address this problem.
In fact, Japanese savers have been benefiting from this phenomenon for more than a decade, reaping higher real returns than their counterparts in the US, even though Japan’s near-zero nominal interest rates are much lower than America’s.
Japan’s experience illustrates this phenomenon perfectly.
Rather, it is becoming a more digital phenomenon.
The scope of the phenomenon is enormous.
The set of principles that have been proposed to discipline the phenomenon remain purely voluntary.
The Resource Curse RevisitedThere is a curious phenomenon that economists call the resource curse - so named because, on average, countries with large endowments of natural resources perform worse than countries that are less well endowed.
For example, an inflow of oil money often leads to currency appreciation - a phenomenon called the Dutch Disease .
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