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Economic projections and rules of thumb for monetary policy [PDF]
Monetary policy analysts often rely on rules of thumb, such as the Taylor rule, to describe historical monetary policy decisions and to compare current policy with historical norms.
Athanasios Orphanides, Volker Wieland
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Fiscal Policy under Balanced Budget and Indeterminacy: A New Keynesian Perspective [PDF]
We investigate the effect of fiscal policy on equilibrium determinacy in a New Keynesian economy with rule-of-thumb (liquidity constrained) consumers and capital accumulation by focusing on the inter-action between monetary policy and taxation under the ...
Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, Marco Manzo
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Rule of Thumb and Dynamic Programming [PDF]
This paper studies the relationships between learning about rules of thumb (represented by classifier systems) and dynamic programming. Building on a result about Markovian stochastic approximation algorithms, we characterize all decision functions that ...
Lettau, M., Uhlig, H.
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System description document for the Anthrobot-2: A dexterous robot hand [PDF]
The Anthrobot-2 is an anatomically correct, fully functioning robot hand. The number of fingers, the proportions of the links, the placement and motion of the thumb, and the shape of the palm follow those of the human hand.
Ali, Michael S., Engler, Charles, Jr.
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Cost Heterogeneity and the Potential Savings from Market-Based Policies [PDF]
Policy makers and policy analysts are frequently faced with situations where it is unclear whether market-based instruments hold real promise of reducing costs, relative to conventional command-and-control approaches.
Newell, Richard, Stavins, Robert
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, 2015 (excerpt) An ultrasound video of an unborn child sucking its thumb makes a case against abortion that reason hardly need supplement. But a zygote photographed just after an in vitro conception is not so easily recognizable as a human being or person. Pro-
Stith, Richard
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Stationarity of time series and the problem of spurious regression [PDF]
The goal of this paper was to introduce some general issues of non-stationarity for practitioners, students and beginning researchers. Using elementary techniques we examined the effect of non-stationary data on the results of regression analysis.
Baumöhl, Eduard, Lyócsa, Štefan
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Search, Nash Bargaining and Rule of Thumb Consumers [PDF]
This paper analyses the effects of introducing typical Keynesian features, namely rule-of-thumb consumers and consumption habits, into a standard labour market search model.
Javier Ferri +2 more
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Thumb reach of Portuguese young adult when interacting with a touchscreen of one-handed device [PDF]
, 2016 The main purpose of this study was to identify the thumb reach envelope of Portuguese young adults for a one-handed device. The correlation between the thumb reach versus the hand length and thumb length was also analyzed.
Arezes, P. +2 more
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