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Monitoring Macroeconomic Imbalances in Europe: Proposal for a Refined Analytical Framework
No full textThe crisis has awakened attention towards broader macroeconomic imbalances in
EMU, and in particular private debts and divergences in price and cost
competitiveness. We believe a too rigid monitoring exercise is undesirable. It will
be necessary to address the different causes of the imbalances, including devoting
attention to the use of private debt and the different components of unit labour
costs developments, namely wage as well as productivity growth
The Fiscal Governance Disorder of the Eurozone: Curing the Symptoms or Curing the Causes?
No full textIn the book chapter we discuss the extent to which the proposed solutions of fiscal governance in the EU, including the EU2020 agenda, are able to cure both economic disorders (imbalances and growth) currently characterising the health of the Eurozone system. In particular we rely on a micro-founded decomposition of productivity dynamics across countries in the eurozone to derive our main results.[...
EU Fiscal Policy in the Age of Turbulence: Will the Lisbon Strategy Survive It?.
No full textWe provide a detailed examination of the impact of the crisis on EU fiscal policy and the compatibility of the fiscal stimulus with the Lisbon agenda. We show how the conventional wisdom behind the EMU (discretionary fiscal policy should not be used as a tool to stabilize output over the cycle, with the stabilization role being normally left to monetary policy) has been reverted due to the peculiar aspects of the current crisis: a liquidity crisis transformed into a solvency crisis with ensuing consequences in terms of the drying up of credit for new investments, and hence low growth rates in the medium run, making monetary policy of limited use in stimulating the economy. We emphasize however that the problems of discretionary fiscal policies are not overcome, in terms of information, decision and implementation lags. It follows that that the structure of national incentives for national governments might not be in line with EU-wide needs, the ideal solution being a federal set-up for fiscal policy and deficits in the Union’s budget. As this is clearly not possible within the current institutional context, we suggest multilevel coordination of economic policy actions: a strengthened role for the Eurogroup (also used more frequently at the head of state and government levels); a clear link between fiscal policy actions and the Commission’s annual monitoring of the Lisbon Agenda; some explicit form of centralization of fiscal policy at the EU level, and namely the possibility to raise EU-level debt managed by the EU institutions.[...
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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