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Many economists believe that the economy is fragile and that it would be better not to cut spending or raise taxes at this point.

Tokyo economists reluctantly concede that the yen must be revalued upward; there is likely to be a 5% revaluation within a year.

Economists said the amount of money ICBC hopes to bring into the country was roughly equivalent to one month of China's trade surplus.

And White House economists are predicting a strong rebound over the next three years.

This conception of the news as a source of pure information is dramatically different from that of non economists studying the media.

It seems to me that our economists are not that patient. They have to see the day that they become famous.

Some of that results from excess money created by quantitative easing in the U. S. looking for better returns abroad, economists say.

That, in turn, could intensify a bad loan problem at China's banks that many economists believe is an inevitable result of the lending boom.

Economists, however, are doing their best to gauge just how much the destruction will cost both Japan and the world in economic growth.

Moreover, contrary to the views of some economists, it has been able to do so for a long while and continues to be able to do so.

Economists said the dec-line in the number of Filipinos leaving for overseas jobs and the strong peso had not yet hurt remittances.

A third, much debated, explanation for Asian resilience is what some economists regard as a structural pick-up in consumer demand.

For decades, economists have been warning us that when we buy at a distance, we do not tend to take the cost of our own time into account.

Even professional economists do not always heed the principle that preferences are a ranking, not a measurement.

And one of the things we wondered -- I'm sure some of you out there are economists, and you know all about supply and demand.

Economists from Asia and the United States and government ministers from India and China said the U. S. economy was on a downward course.

I mean, you know, economists over the years have modified it a bit.

Some Chinese economists worry out loud that China's massive stimulus-spending might have bought the country only a temporary reprieve.

Thirty-seven economists, or 70%, said the effect would be 'very little, ' compared with just 6% in the public-opinion poll.

Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, is among the world's most influential central bankers and leading policy economists.

As economists often remind us, crises take longer to arrive than you think, but then they happen much faster than you could have imagined.

China's central bank, which makes its own estimates of seasonally adjusted growth rates, also seems to agree with private-sector economists.

Economists have been ruminating on what this agreement might contain and how much it might help the world's poor.

If the current moribund economy turns into a lost decade, as some economists fear it might, it will be crucial to be prepared for it.

Some economists, notably Robert Shiller, did identify the bubble and warn of painful consequences if it were to burst.

Large areas of what economists call "public goods" have continued to be under-emphasised.

Typically, stock-market gains are one of the most bullish leading indicators, and yet economists are marking U. S. growth figures down.

Economists try to understand how all the parts of the long story are related.

The Bank's economists have also scaled back their estimates of how much trade reduces poverty.

The Bank's growth forecasts are of secondary importance, but economists expect they are likely to be revised down.

Behavioural economists point out cases in which our decisions don't match neoclassical theory, and thus the "as if" defence fails.

Growing Chinese interest is one reason economists expect foreign direct investment in the U. S. to grow, or at least hold steady.

Regardless of what is the subject of independence, economists, frankly, concise and respect the fact that the quality of any difference.

Economists said the surge in inflation also presented Asian central bankers with a conundrum that went against their instincts.

This sort of pay structure is called a "tournament" and was described by the economists Ed Lazear and Sherwin Rosen in a famous article.

Those advances began to stall at the turn of the millennium, for reasons that are the subject of much speculation among economists.

THIS would seem to be the week when economists argue that a shortfall in investment is the main problem with the American economy.

It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths.

Of course, if you make this point to one of the elite economists in Washington, they would scoff and deny the charge. Why?

But in a new paper, economists at the McKinsey Global Institute suggest that the U. S. might not have all that much to fret about.

But economists doubted the extent to which the measures would help the economy and said Taiwan remained vulnerable to weak global demand.

He was one of the first economists to gain wide following as an economic commentator in the mainstream press.

The timing is unclear, but economists estimate that up to $100bn of that target could have been shifted to CIC in the first quarter.

'It is not clear that the United States enjoys much of a privilege at all, ' the McKinsey economists write.

Some economists say, by the middle of this century, China's economic output could match or possibly exceed that of the United States.

Economists have been trying to answer questions like that since the days of Adam Smith.

The economic value of a good or service has puzzled economists since the beginning of the discipline.

The slowdown was worse than economists expected but is likely to be viewed by the Federal Reserve as a prelude to a gradual recovery.

Economists also warned that some of the improvement was the result of restocking by companies that ran down inventories during the crisis.

Not a day passes without a suggestion of that kind being made by market participants, economists and commentators.

Some economists say they are less concerned about how much leverage China has than at the speed of the rise in China's leverage.

But he said he was confident India could sustain a relatively high rate of growth of 8 per cent, above the estimates of many economists.

A study by economists at the Federal Reserve found that GDI is often more reliable than GDP in spotting the start of a recession.

Even among economists who saw better-than-even chances, there was no clear agreement on where a bubble would materialize.

Nonetheless, the extent to which politicians and regulators trying to reform finance can trust financial economists is an open question.

Many economists are now trying to absorb lessons learned by psychologists, neuroscientists and sociologists.

When economists are faced with analysing this sort of decision, they reach for a branch of mathematics called game theory.

Restrictive duties, said the economists, would thwart the foreign debtors' ability to pay interest to American investors.

And yet, there is one context in which economists talk about job scarcity in the same terms as an ordinary layman guilty of make-work bias.

Economists are arguing vigorously about how much damage falling house prices and the subprime mortgage crisis will do.

He said the problem in our economy is the one thing that economists have in their system which does not obey the laws of physics.

I will try to summarize both terms and explain the differences between them in a way that almost all economists could agree with.

Economists have been trying to make sense of the results across individuals, across countries and across the years.

Economists at HSBC say that the correlations between industrial output and commodity prices began to fall apart a few years ago.

Yet this seems to be the aspiration of many economists, who notoriously suffer from "physics envy" .

American economists are now looking down the road at when China's economy overtakes that of the United States.

Economists do not know enough about growth, he says, to justify their obsession with it, however important it may be.

Public spending on building and maintaining infrastructure also matters, though economists argue about how much.

While all this may send euro zone officials up the wall, economists and market participants are fairly dismissive about it.

There seems to be a bit of a debate going on between economists Stephen Roach, from Morgan Stanley, and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman.

In years to come, economists and historians might hark back to this week as the moment the balance of world power tipped toward China.

This compares with $250bn a year the economists calculate would be the probable cost of cutting emissions.

Still, after the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, economists say a few bumps are to be expected.

It comes down to what economists struggle to model and managers grapple with all day: judgment.

Economists were trying to lead the economy as if their predictions were as accurate as those of physicists.

Ever since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the question of the future of energy supplies has occupied economists.

Economists, they thought, were people who talked about whether interest rates would go up or down even though they did not know.

Economists are now, as you know, comparing Britain's fiscal condition with Greece's.

Economists suggest some of the expected increase in economic growth is a bounce off the bottom.

We, the economists, can only presume that this was the choice that maximised your happiness.

However, since the last century since the 80's, some economic historians and economists point to such a challenge.

Prior to this, economists generally prediction in the United Kingdom in the second quarter to get out of the recession, GD.

Economists knew a great deal, he said, but they had also forgotten a great deal and been distracted by a lot.

For example, economists often use the term utility to describe how much pleasure or satisfaction a person gets from a particular situation.

Phelps is anxious to make it clear that he "is not one of those American economists" who say that Europeans object to wealth creation.

Some economists would like to see mass privatisation to shift wealth out of the dominant and domineering state sector.

Academic economists usually treat imbalances not as a problem but rather as an easy measure of the extent to which the world was globalised.

Astudy by economists at the Federal Reserve found that GDI is often morereliable than GDP in spotting the start of a recession.

Obama stressed that independent economists believed that this jobs bill will provide a strong boost to the weak economy and job market.

Economists say in a healthy market it would take at least three years to sell all of Spain's unsold homes that were built during the boom.

Astudy by economists at the Federal Reserve found that GDI is often morereliable than GDP in spotting the start of a recession.

Obama stressed that independent economists believed that this jobs bill will provide a strong boost to the weak economy and job market.

Economists say in a healthy market it would take at least three years to sell all of Spain's unsold homes that were built during the boom.

Some years ago, however, the economists David Autor, Frank Levy and Richard Murnane argued that this was the wrong way to think about it.

Economists coined a word "mancession" at the beginning of this year to describe the worldwide phenomenon of a waxing Yin and waning Yang.

Hayek's claim was that it was no more nor less ridiculous than the claims economists were making at the time.

That does not mean economists should be banned from policy making. But it does suggest they have no right to monopolise central banks.

Like economists, you know, their definition of rational, that we all act out of our own economic self-interest.

But economists are sharply divided on the cause of this inflation and the degree to which policy needs to be tightened.

Economists are beginning to say that the trend looks clearly downwards.

However, economists warned that it was still far too early to assume that the final chapter of this year's market turmoil is now over.

The U. S. economy, which weeks earlier looked like it was recovering, appeared to be slowing, according to New York Fed economists.

Yet in 1931 orthodox economists were denying there was an output gap at the bottom of the greatest depression in history.

Lonergan's concept of economics differs radically from that of contemporary economists and represent a major paradigm shift.

Some economists are starting to ask whether the government might have gone too far in raising interest four times since October.

The advantages and disadvantages of a large population have long been a subject of discussion among economists .

Economists don't agree on much, but there seems to be a wide consensus that the United States is in an innovation slump.

Economists at Wells Fargo said the impact was more likely to be seen in U. S. trade data for April.

So when economists at the IMF question received wisdom and the fund's established views twice in a week, it is no small matter.

It is a history going back a century of how the idea came into being, and of the motivations of the economists who developed it.

And economists like Mr Brunnermeier are trying to fit their small, "blackboard" models of the crisis into a larger macroeconomic frame.

These myths were injected into the mainstream mainly by Keynesian economists or demand-siders who were trying to influence public policy.

His decision to leave the bank comes amid a changing of the guard among top Canadian economists.

The advocates of such a strategy are not marginal and cranky academics. They include some of the most influential US economists.

Economists always seem to talk in dollars and cents, yet few economic models contain any reference to the stuff.

Whether US economy is going into recession has been a debatable issue among economists for quite some time now.

Economists said the data underpinned the case for the Fed to lower interest rates sharply at a meeting next week.

Economists worry that if the costs of bailouts keep growing, governments could find themselves unable to borrow enough to cover them.

Economists who oppose Stern do not deny that his practical conclusion follows from his ethical stance.

Economists with a more monetary bias , however, are worried by the sluggish growth in some measures of the money supply and bank credit .

Economists began to doubt the possibility of a financial crisis so severe it would upend the economy.

It is all very well to believe that people respond to incentives , but we economists also need to ask what the incentives are.

Economists are trying to measure a home computer's educational impact on schoolchildren in low-income households.

For in the end economists are social scientists, trying to understand the real world.

Now, economists say Beijing is waiting for clearer signs of a strong global recovery before going back to the "managed float" policy.

Economists often disagree on whether the U. S. is in a recovery or not.

Economists said the odds of that happening were low.

And as the New York Times has noted, some economists and traders have begun to refer to London by an ominous moniker: Reykjavik-on-Thames.

But economists said those figures did not amount to a genuine rebalancing of the economy.

Scientists hope a new approach to assessing carbon build-up in the atmosphere will simplify issues for policymakers and economists.

Only late did the economists discover that the apparent paradox was the outcome of a vicious formulation of the problem involved.

Citing aerial photos of plumeless smokestacks, economists say roughly three of every four North Korean factories are idle.

According to economists Mark Aguiar and Erik Hurst, leisure time for women has increased by at least four hours a week since 1965.

That's all right for economists and journalists, who can probably spend a good bit of their golden years at a desk, typing.

In a survey in March 2001, 95% of American economists said there would not be a recession, even though one had already started.

Most economists believe that quantitative easing could help pull the economy out of its worst recession in two decades.

While it does that job well , we will have to wait for a fuller account of one of the 20th - century's great economists .

S. , " he said. " A consensus prevails amongst economists that the biggest productivity gains come from invention.

In a recent Wall Street Journal economic forecasting survey, economists expect headline consumer inflation to moderate over the next year.

Most economists say the policies Washington followed during the first years of the Great Depression made the downturn worse.

Some prominent economists are beginning to sound alarms as well.

Many economists will say that 127, 500 is just a neutral number, only enough to keep up with population growth.

Economists say it's the result of a rapidly aging population after 40 years of the one-child policy.

Still, economists continued to sound warnings about inflation pressures and urged Beijing to unwind its stimulus measures further.

But that should not stop undiplomatic economists asking whether a recession once in a while might actually be a good thing.

Also adding fuel to the recovery is the Federal Reserve's bond-buying program, though the economists said the effect may not be large.

The rate has never fallen below 2% since the bank was founded in 1694, though most economists expect it will soon break that barrier.

Some economists believe that the heat wave, fires and drought could cause up to $15 billion in damage.

Some attendees wondered how economists would ever get out of this valley.

The initial estimate surprised most economists, who had forecast at least some growth, and reignited fears of a "double dip" recession.

No doubt most economists believe that policymakers, financiers and entrepreneurs should listen better to their forecasts and ideas.

Economists over the years have had a schizophrenic attitude toward low probability but highly costly events.

Some basic philosophical teaching would be rather useful to enable economists to think about causality with more of an open mind.

Yet economists point out that there are surprisingly few credible estimates of the extent to which microcredit actually reduces poverty.

The truth of the matter is that free trade is alive and well among economists.

Economists say that high corporate tax rates will do little but drive business and investment out of the United States.

Economists also expect first-quarter economic growth figures, due to be released on Thursday, to put more pressure on the PBoC.

Their logic seems to be that if economists got things wrong, then politicians will do better.

Meaning that sometimes we non-economists are just going to have to figure things out for ourselves.

But for a genuine trade recovery to happen, economists say a robust renewal in trade will have to come from Europe, the U.

The greatest challenge for all economists is to understand the dynamics of the financial-economic nexus.

I explained to the class that even though this was a popular view among professional economists, it was not one that I shared.

Some economists said the government was attempting to smooth the flow of credit throughout the year.

My plan reduces the national debt, and fast. So fast, in fact, that economists worry that we're going to run out of debt to retire. ? Feb.

Some economists argue that this could create a much wider form of moral hazard.

However, it would be a great shame if economists learned nothing more from doctors than to use randomisation.

David Reiley was one of the first economists to realise that the internet was generating vast amounts of researchable data.

Some economists suggested that the February data might be too distorted to be worth considering alone.

Economists said it was now looking less likely that the anticipated second-half pick-up would be as strong as initially thought.

Though Japan is now showing signs of economic recovery, economists say the long-term forecast remains unclear, as exports remain weak.

No one in his right mind supposes that it could reach sixty-four billion without horrific consequences, except perhaps a few economists.

Economists at Goldman Sachs said it was "crystal clear" the Fed did not anticipate raising rates in the near future.

Some private-sector economists have promoted such a program as a necessary component of the rescue package.

Other economists believe that fiscal policy should not be used for economic stabilization under any circumstances.

Employers continue to slash jobs at a rapid pace, and economists expect severe job losses to continue at least into the summer.

One of the key indicators that economists have been keenly watching is the cost of raw materials to manufacturers.

Economists said the move was mainly domestically focused, aimed at heading off a property price bubble and taming inflation.

Economists long have studied 'free riders, ' the sort of people who take more than their fair share of something when circumstances permit.

Many economists believe the April-June quarter may produce a small recovery which could gain momentum in the second half of the year.

This paper summarizes the agriculture economic thought of the classical economists, with a purpose to form a relatively integrated system.

Thatcher had no time for conventional, Keynesian economists who urged her to use government money to lessen the pain.

A number of our fellow economists do share with us a sense of general malaise afflicting contemporary microeconomic theory.

Stanford economists have demonstrated that the average value of a year of quality human life is actually closer to about $129, 000.

Ominously, Goldman Sachs economists said, the fall was driven by decreases in the components measuring sales and new orders.

Economists cautioned that it is premature to call the end of the recession, according to the latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey.

All the while, we blissfully ignored a little concept economists like to call human capital.

But the recent improvements, economists say, suggest manufacturers have come out of the worst phase of inventory adjustments.

This prize acknowledges that economists have as much to say about the limits of markets as about their power.

Some economists think India will grow faster than any other large country over the next 25 years.

The view among economists has long been that it takes at least 7% growth to keep up with a growing work force.

The economists were able to use measures of agro-climatic conditions to predict which parts of the world would adopt the plough.

Many economists believe that consumers will have to spend more freely for the economy to put together a stronger recovery.

After dining with a group of Keynesian economists in Washington, in 1944, Keynes commented: "I was the only non-Keynesian there. "

Here in Canada, the economists are constantly berating us about our economy not being as productive as that of the United States.

Economists estimate that only a quarter to a third of the headline number will be new spending that would not have taken place anyway.

MR. BAKER: Most economists would say that the currency is at least 10% to 20% undervalued.

After economists looked hard at the numbers, however, the consensus was that the effect of trade on inequality was probably modest.

Part of the reason lies in the computable general equilibrium (CGE) models used by the Bank's (and other) economists.

Hiring will pick up in 2011, but not enough to significantly lower the unemployment rate, economists forecast.

First, economists tried to estimate the value of a good to an individual alone, and extend that definition to goods which can be exchanged.

But results are a little better than what economists had been predicting.

"By any standard measure of risk used by economists, stocks do not appear to be that much riskier than bonds, " says Barberis.

Some analysts say it may reflect economists' desire to be seen as scientists who describe and discover universal laws of nature.

Economists expect the inflation and trade measures to fall from a year ago; they expect other measures to rise by fat double digits.

Politicians and economists have long given up on the idea that the U. S. would be a manufacturing powerhouse.

The ongoing weakness has prompted some Wall Street economists to call for major intervention by Washington to head off prolonged stagnation.

Psychologists , medical scientists , economists were all interested in finding out the rules that govern the way all of us behave .

He has no time for the theoretical economists' penchant for "efficient" balance sheets that lead companies to insolvency in recessions.

Economists widely expect China's inflation to have hit another two-year high last month, with the CPI rising 4. 7% from a year earlier.

Besides the financial factors discussed by economists, quality management should also be considered as a major factor in this development.

The difference between the two economists' discount rates is enough to explain the difference between their conclusions.

The world's major economists are now huddling in Washington, trying to thaw credit markets and end the global panic.

This suggests that the economic impact of a break-up would be less catastrophic than envisaged by the UBS economists.

But even though the U. S. is a mature, developed country, many economists believe it has shortchanged infrastructure investment for decades.

China will keep buying European bonds, economists say, simply because there is nothing else to do with that money.

Very simply, whether raising the money in circulation boosts incomes depends also on what economists call the "velocity" of money.

fail to see the point of professional economists.

With most economists expecting the renminbi to appreciate at an accelerating rate , investments offshore start out in a hole .

But economists questioned whether Japan will be able to spend its way out of the economic downturn.

Economists said the decline in factory orders would result in manufacturers hiring fewer workers.

And this has led economists to ask whether "culture" or "values" independently influence those opinions.

Most economists like this idea, as it is likely to discourage excessive consumption of health care.

By then, mainstream academic economists had long ago lost faith in market rationality, at least in its purest form.

Plenty of economists doubt that China's economy is as sound as it appears or truly on the road to a sustained recovery.

In an age of globalization, central bankers can't just look at inflation as a yardstick, economists said in Kuala Lumpur.

Growth last quarter was more than the median estimate for a 23 percent increase in a Bloomberg News survey of 12 economists.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and other economists have proclaimed the end of the worst recession since the Great Depression.

Few economists saw our current crisis coming , but this predictive failure was the least of the field 's problems .

Economists often refer to this sort of behaviour as irrational.

Economists trying to map the global economic recovery tend to focus on demography.

With zany myopia, economists like to claim that the deeper cause of every thing is economic.

Even-handed economists consider such trade surpluses just as disruptive to global harmony as the corresponding deficits.

Most Indian economists expect at least 8% over the next five years.

Robert Barro, Vice-President of American Economic Association, is one of the most influential economists worldwide.

Many economists believe the current investment and export-heavy growth model has only a few years left to run.

Economists in Burma said the drop of the US dollar and FEC values lied in the current economic pattern.

"The ongoing reduction in the total number of benefit recipients is consistent with continued hiring, " wrote economists at Goldman Sachs.

Economists said the US inflation figures made the Federal Reserve more likely to keep interest rates on hold.

The departure of top talent in technology and science may also undercut the prospects for a recovery in the U. S. , many economists say.

Most economists believe that the direct effect, at least, is fairly small, although they are much less sure about indirect effects.

Several economists in Havana argue that Fidel, even while convalescent, has continued to slow the pace of change.

Moreover, economists are trying to design a series of institutional mechanism to prevent the regulatory capture occurrence.

Many economists agree that shrewd state management can be better than market forces in getting a developing nation on its feet.

Economists in Beijing and the West are skeptical that Chinese leaders are ready to accept a sharp rise in the renminbi's value.

Until the Great Depression, most economists clung to a vision of capitalism as a perfect or nearly perfect system.

Some sort of stimulus package was expected, but the timing surprised economists.

" U. S News and World Report said the University " has a corps of highly respected economists and high-tech scholars.

Most economists today don't ask who rules the global economy, visualizing it as a decentralized competitive market that cannot be ruled.

Until a strongly-worded speech by RBA governor Glenn Stevens last month, economists had expected the next rate rise to be next year.

mathematicians and financial economists have appeared to take over the markets.