Direct contact and authoritarianism as moderators between extended contact and reduced prejudice: Lower threat and greater trust as mediators

Using a representative sample of Dutch adults (N = 1238), we investigated the moderating influence of direct contact and authoritarianism on the potential of extended contact to reduce prejudice. As expected, direct contact and authoritarianism moderated the effect of extended contact on prejudice. Moreover, the third-order moderation effect was also significant, revealing that extended contact has the strongest effect among high authoritarians with low levels of direct contact. We identified trust and perceived threat as the mediating processes underlying these moderation effects. The present study thus attests to the theoretical and practical relevance of reducing prejudice via extended contact. The discussion focuses on the role of extended contact in relation to direct contact and authoritarianism as well as on the importance of trust in intergroup contexts

Moderation Effect of Market Condition on the Relationship between Dividend Yield and Stock Return

This paper examines the existence of moderation effect of market condition on the relationship between dividend yield and stock return in Bursa Malaysia. Results confirm the existence of moderating effect of market condition. However, if the market condition is assumed to have direct impact on the stock return, the tested moderating variable fails to be significant in all forms of market condition. Results also suggest that incorporating moderation variable will improve the explanation power of the model in terms of R-square. In addition, models have been controlled for the size effect of the firms.Moderation Effect; Moderating Effect; Market Condition; Dividend Yield; Stock Return; Malaysia

The Enigma of Electability: How Do Voters Predict Who Can Win?

Ideological moderation is often assumed to inform a candidate\u27s electability. This article examines the effects of a voters’ perceptions of a candidate’s ideology on the voters’ belief in the candidate’s ability to win the election. Using data from the American National Election Survey from 2008 and 2016, the paper compares the effect of the perceived ideology of a candidate and individuals\u27 predictions about the candidate that will win. Opinions regarding Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Donald Trump are analyzed. The results suggest that for the Democratic candidates, voters who believed them to be more moderate or conservative were more likely to believe they would win than those who thought they were more liberal. However, the results suggested no similar relationship existed for the Republican candidates with no effect of ideological moderation on election outcome predictions

Moderator effects differ on alternative effect-size measures

This paper discusses largely ignored issues regarding moderation of effect-sizes. We show that, under commonly-occurring conditions, popular alternatives for effect-size measures in ANOVA and multiple regression are not moderated identically across independent samples. Effects may appear to be unmoderated according to one effect-size measure but not according to another, or may even be moderated in opposite directions. We identify the conditions under which differential effect-size moderation can occur, and show that they are commonplace. We then review techniques for detecting and dealing with differential moderation of alternative effect-size measures. Finally, we discuss implications for research practice, reporting, replication, and meta-analysis

Globalisation Effect on Inflation in the Great Moderation Era: New Evidence from G10 Countries

The effect of globalisation on inflation is modeled and simulated for ten countries from G10 during the Great Moderation period. The results are supportive of the globalisation hypothesis. In particular, the results show that dynamic channels and magnitudes of globalisation to domestic inflation are highly heterogeneous from country to country, that increases in trade openness could be either inflationary or deflationary, while increased imports from low-cost emerging-market economies have been mostly deflationary, and that there has been almost no direct globalisation impact as far as inflation persistence is concerned while the impact on inflation variability can be positive as well as negative. Overall, globalisation is shown to have contributed positively to the aspect of low inflation rather than that of stable inflation during the Great Moderation era

Outsourcing of Unionized Firms and the Impacts of Labour Market Policy Reforms

This paper shows that outsourcing of parts of the workforce in unionized firms leads to wage moderation and as long as the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage-moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized firms as outsourcing costs fall. This does not affect the well-established qualitative results of the impact labour tax reforms have: changes in the wage tax rate, the tax exemption and the unemployment benefit payments affect domestic wage setting in the same way as in the absence of outsourcing. Furthermore, increasing the degree of tax progression by keeping the relative tax burden per worker constant continues to be good for employment. However, except for low outsourcingactivities, the impact of these policy measures will become smaller as outsourcing costs fall.outsourcing, union wage-setting, employment, labour tax reform

Desain Evaluasi Kinerja Organisasi Pemerintah Kabupaten/kota Provinsi Lampung

This study aims to (1) analyze strategic vision effect on organization performance with city age as the moderation; (2) analyze transparantion effect on organization performance with city age as the moderation; (3) analyze accountability effect on organization performance with city age as the moderation; (4) analyze effectivity effect on organization performance with city age as the moderation. Strategic vision ownership with city age effect positively on organization's performance. It show that strategic vision with moderation of city age increase people trust of city government and acknowledgement of performance. Policy management transparantion has positive effect on performance of city government. Accountability has positive effect on performance of city government. If the company also consider about the social aspects, it will influence investor's evaluation. Effectivity has positive effect on performance of city government. Effectivity will increase if supported by city age.The results of the analysis are collected and processed using Eviews 7 in several steps of analysis stage according to requirement. First, questionnaire testing, then descriptive analysis, factor analysis, and regression analyse with moderating variable. In this study data analysis and interpretation using qualitative and quantitative method as statistic tool. In qualitative method, entered data is grouped and tabulated, and then given explanation. While in quantitative method, relation between variables are analyzed using path analyzed tool

Globalisation effect on inflation in the great moderation era: new evidence from G10 countries

The effect of globalisation on inflation is modelled and simulated for ten countries from G10 during the Great Moderation period. The results are supportive of the globalisation hypothesis. In particular, the results show that dynamic channels and magnitudes of globalisation to domestic inflation are highly heterogeneous from country to country, that increases in trade openness could be either inflationary or deflationary, while increased imports from low-cost emerging-market economies have been mostly deflationary, and that there has been almost no direct globalisation impact as far as inflation persistence is concerned while the impact on inflation variability can be positive as well as negative. Overall, globalisation is shown to have contributed positively to the aspect of low inflation rather than that of stable inflation during the Great Moderation era.Inflation dynamics; globalisation