Herd Behaviour‚ Bubbles and Crashes Author(s): Thomas Lux Source: The Economic Journal‚ Vol. 105‚ No. 431 (Jul.‚ 1995)‚ pp. 881-896 Published by: Wiley on behalf of the Royal Economic Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2235156 . Accessed: 09/03/2015 04:01 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars‚ researchers‚
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Panic disorders can happen at any time and at any place causing an individual to refrain from daily activites due to fear. However‚ there are many different types of help an individual can obtain to get better. Seeking help is the first key to recovery. Many people cannot control the effects that an attack has on themselves; but they can maintain and control the situation. Panic disorder is defined as “a sudden episode of intense fear that triggers severe physical reactions
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personal history of mental illness‚ Gericault strove to depict the darker and more mysterious aspects of life in his artwork. As a Romanticist‚ Gericault attempted to communicate intense human experience through his paintings; his piece Madwoman with a Mania of Envy‚ for example‚ is one of several of Gericault’s portraits of the insane possessing a peculiar hypnotic power (Gardner 654). Originally‚ the series was not intended for public display‚ but instead were painted by the request of a friend—psychiatrist
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strange aspects of the people in PRISM. I. The Great Panic It was the Great Panic that was the inspiration for this study. The Great Panic was an event occurring in the later months of the 2015-2016 school year‚ beginning around April or May and lasting‚ in some form or another‚ until approximately September or October of the 2016-2017 school year. Prior to starting LA/SS 9‚ a panic among all the to-be students existed. The cause of this panic is attributed to the generation that was exiting LA/SS
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The term “moral panic” has been attributed to the alarm surrounding youth delinquency and sexual immorality. Considering the fact that the concern led to the formation of the Special Committee of Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents it could be assumed that this situation displayed at least two of the characteristics of moral panics: concern and consensus. The heightened level of concern led to a consensus that the threat was real and action had to be taken to remedy the issue. Volatility
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Physics of Car Crashes: Airbags Car crashes are a massive cause of death in the world‚ especially in Bangladesh. Every year‚ a lot of people die or get injured from car crashes. As car crashes are destructive for human life‚ we must take scientific measures to reduce the amount of danger in the crashes. There are different types of scientific measures that are taken all over the world‚ one of the most effective ones are airbags. An airbag’s goal is to slow down a passengers forward motion as
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5 Carry Trades and Currency Crashes Markus K. Brunnermeier‚ Princeton University‚ NBER‚ and CEPR Stefan Nagel‚ Stanford University and NBER Lasse H. Pedersen‚ New York University‚ NBER‚ and CEPR I. Introduction This paper studies crash risk of currencies for funding‐constrained speculators in an attempt to shed new light on the major currency puzzles. Our starting point is the currency carry trade‚ which consists of selling low interest rate currencies—“funding currencies”—and investing
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In the article‚ “Moral Panics: Culture‚ Politics‚ and Social Construction” the authors Erich Goode and Nachman Ben-Yehuda discuss the different perspectives of moral panics. The two perspectives are the objectivist and the constructionist. These two perspectives differ in how moral panics are to come about in a society. However‚ the constructionist view is more important to society than the objectivist view. According to the objectivist view‚ a social problem is something that is a real threat to
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In this paper‚ I will be examining the relationship between panic disorder and stress. A panic disorder is when someone has a reoccurring feeling of terror that lead to psychological and physical symptoms. Panic disorder can lead to having a panic attack that makes the person feel as if they are dying with shortness of breath and dizziness. Having a consent fear of things around you can lead to stress because someone will always be on the edge that something bad will happen. So if this is a reoccurring
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Identify and explore the notion that moral panics and subsequent deviancy amplification arises out of fundamental changes in social structure and culture. “A moral panic is an intense feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order” (Jones‚ M‚ and Jones‚ E. 1999). Regularly distinguished as incidents or chapters throughout history‚ moral panics are usually prompted by media stories being blown out of proportion to create headlines and sell the papers. These
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