Canadian targets

Monetary policy - Canada ; Canada ; Money supply - Canada

Effectiveness of exchange-rate changes on the trade account: the Japanese case

Foreign exchange rates - Japan ; Yen, Japanese ; Japan ; Balance of payments

Capital formation and competitiveness

Saving and investment ; Capital ; Competition ; Labor productivity

Asian dollar market

Asian dollar market

Thatcherism

Economic policy - Great Britain ; Great Britain

Japan's trade surplus

Japan ; International trade - Japan

The Crowdsourced Replication Initiative: Investigating Immigration and Social Policy Preferences. Executive Report.

In an era of mass migration, social scientists, populist parties and social movements raise concerns over the future of immigration-destination societies. What impacts does this have on policy and social solidarity? Comparative cross-national research, relying mostly on secondary data, has findings in different directions. There is a threat of selective model reporting and lack of replicability. The heterogeneity of countries obscures attempts to clearly define data-generating models. P-hacking and HARKing lurk among standard research practices in this area.This project employs crowdsourcing to address these issues. It draws on replication, deliberation, meta-analysis and harnessing the power of many minds at once. The Crowdsourced Replication Initiative carries two main goals, (a) to better investigate the linkage between immigration and social policy preferences across countries, and (b) to develop crowdsourcing as a social science method. The Executive Report provides short reviews of the area of social policy preferences and immigration, and the methods and impetus behind crowdsourcing plus a description of the entire project. Three main areas of findings will appear in three papers, that are registered as PAPs or in process

Rational Expectations and the Determination of the Forward Rate

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Polidoc.net CODEBOOK: National and Regional Manifestos and other Political Documents Collected for the Research Projects "Representation in Europe: Congruence between Preferences of Elites and Voters" (REPCONG) and "The Impact of EU Cohesion Policy on European Identification" (COHESIFY)

The Political Documents Archive http://www.polidoc.net/ contains election manifestos, coalition agreements, government declarations and various other documents of political actors from developed democracies. Currently, the archive builds on a stock of more than 3000 political documents from 20 European countries. The aim of the repository is to provide political texts in order to facilitate scholarly research in different areas of comparative politics such as party competition, coalition politics, legislative decision-making or electoral behavior. National electoral manifestos have been collected in the course of the REPCONG project ("Representation in Europe: Policy Congruence between Citizens and Elites"), and the archive includes party manifestos for regional elections in several European democracies. Because the process of European integration resulted in a strengthening of regions in EU member states and in countries that want to join the European Union, the relevance of the regional level for political decision-making has increased during the last decades. Therefore, also the policy profiles of regional parties are required to get a full picture of democratic responsiveness in European states across all levels of the political system. The collection of regional manifestos was supported by the COHESIFY project (www.cohesify.eu), funded under the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. The aim of COHESIFY is to study whether the European Structural and Investment Funds affect people’s support for and identification with the European project. The archive is freely accessible (after a simple registration) and meant to foster rigorous research in these areas by enabling scholars to produce valid and reliable findings from empirical studies of textual data rather than unnecessarily struggling to obtain and process texts

Learning Online: A Dialogue Among Professor and Doctoral Students and Suggestions for Improving Online Instruction

The purpose of this study is to examine those aspects of online learning that are identified as effective or detrimental in online learning in a cohort-based doctoral program in a School of Education and Social Sciences. The researchers are comprised of four online doctoral students and a professor at a medium university in the Northeast. These four students are members of the first cohort of doctoral students who began their three- year program in the summer of 2016 and will graduate in May, 2019. The professor taught three courses to this cohort after having transformed these courses from a traditional to an online format. A focus group will then be conducted among these five participant-researchers to identify what practices they found to be effective or detrimental to learning in an online environment. Based on the findings of this focus group, a questionnaire will then then be developed and sent electronically to the other graduates of this first cohort as well as to the cohort that is scheduled to graduate in May, 2020. IRB approval will be required to conduct this study