To what extent are growth differences between countries determined by good policy and how much is good luck? Good Luck or Good Policy?: An Expectational Theory of Macro Volatility Switches GAETANO GABALLO What are the determinants of switches in the volatility of macro-variables? In principle‚ a persistent reduction in the amplitude of business .uctuations can be thought to be either the result of good policy‚ namely a change of policy by some major actor within the economy‚ or of good luck
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Please cite this paper as: Johansson‚ Å. et al. (2008)‚ “Taxation and Economic Growth”‚ OECD Economics Department Working Papers‚ No. 620‚ OECD Publishing. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/241216205486 OECD Economics Department Working Papers No. 620 Taxation and Economic Growth Åsa Johansson‚ Chistopher Heady‚ Jens Arnold‚ Bert Brys‚ Laura Vartia JEL Classification: C33‚ H23‚ H24‚ H25‚ O40‚ O43 Unclassified ECO/WKP(2008)28 Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques
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communities. So‚ through constant activity and communication in the group‚ I got to know some secret things and resources only accessible by those in the choir which I think is pretty cool. For example‚ we had our own terminologies
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Formation of Volcanic Islands When people think of volcanoes‚ most would imagine a deadly explosion of liquid hot magma that ruthlessly obliterates anything in plain view. If volcanoes demolish everything in sight then how did life become what it is today? Volcanoes are not just a source of destruction and mayhem‚ long before civilization‚ while the earth was still being developed its apocalyptic surface consisted of nothing but molten rock and volcanic eruptions were a common occurrence; it was
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philosophers. Introduce logos. Explain natural world. -Natural Philosophers-naturalistic/physicalistic explanations. Mythos: story or legend. -Empiricism-knowledge based on observable events. Instantly applied to understanding of natural world. -Personality Psychology-scientific study of unique‚ characteristic patterns of thinking. Feeling‚ acting(cognition‚ emotion‚ behavior) --Various Theories “Different focus will produce different conclusions.” Hebrew Tradition (mythos) - two basic impulses
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Personality Theories – Ch. 12 Assigned Readings: pg. 20‚ “Social Psychology & Cross-Cultural Psychology”; 383‚ “Revealing Who We Really Are”; pg. 398‚ “Murray’s Personological Approach”; pg. 407‚ “Can Personality Change”; pgs. 414 – 415‚ “The Type A/ Type B Behavior Pattern” I. Personality (pgs. 384) - an individual’s unique and relatively _______________ patterns of behavior‚ thoughts‚ and emotions; consistent behavioral traits; general style of interacting with the world A. Urich
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Allan Poe‚ was short-lived and confined to a very small geographic area. Yet it has influenced the growth of Western civilization far out of proportion to its size and duration. The Greece that Poe praised was primarily Athens during its golden age in the 5th century BC. The English poet John Milton called Athens "the eye of Greece‚ mother of arts and eloquence." Athens was the city-state in which the arts‚ philosophy‚ and democracy flourished. At least it was the city that attracted those who wanted
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To what extent was the Sino-soviet split caused by the personalities of the leaders? Ideological differences appear to play an important role in the Sino-Soviet Split but the geopolitical view that national security interests were of paramount importance is more convincing. The language of ideology was used by Communist leaders to disguise national interests and the friendly relationship between the powers deteriorated only when ideological differences threatened national security. However lesser
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As with naming‚ another key aspect of group identity formation is its relationship to the past‚ through a historicizing and history-possession process of heritage‚ groups identify their common past‚ recent shared history‚ and employ historical narratives‚ shaped or selected to represent contemporary views‚ to bind their members and legitimate their existence by an appeal to tradition and the authority of pastness. Huyssen argues that museums‚ places of a group’s shared past or the past of others
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a national research agenda specifically geared to the needs of policy-makers and planners in the 1980’s. Professor of Economics‚ University of the Philippines Population and Development Research 289 Background The increased concern about the role of population in development led many governments at the turn of the 1970’s to adopt an official population poli~y whose main fo~us was the reduction of the rapid population growth. The main population program was the family planning program
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