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Finance and investment in the Eurozone
No full textThis chapter reviews some of the core constraints that have developed in the Eurozone on investment and growth as a result of the shift towards economic liberalism. The chapter also advances some alternative policies for promoting growth and investment. The chapter starts with a review of the impact of financial liberalization on investment and growth in the Eurozone and of the Eurozone fiscal policy stance on investment and growth. In light of this background, Cozzi puts forward some progressive economic policies for growth and investment in the Eurozone
Making the Case for a Gender-aware, Investment-led Recovery for Europe
No full textUsing the Cambridge Alphametrics Model (CAM), a structuralist macroeconomic model, this chapter compares and contrasts the economic and social consequences of continuing with business-as-usual austerity policies versus implementing a gender-equitable, investment-led alternative in Europe. The results show that economic growth and increased employment can be achieved simultaneously via the adoption of gender-aware expansionary macroeconomic policies and by gendering government expenditure (ie investing in services that generate female employment and enhance women’s well-being). This chapter argues that such a macroeconomic strategy would lead to substantial gains in job creation for women and men, accelerated growth and reductions in government debts and fiscal deficits
Making the case for a gender-aware, Investment-led recovery for Europe
No full textThis chapter traces the roots of the current economic and social situation in Europe, recognising the role played by policy choices that have also led to increasing gender divisions. Given this status quo, the chapter makes the case for an alternative gender-equitable, investment-led recovery. Using a macroeconomic model, the Cambridge Alphametrics Model, the chapter compares and contrasts the economic and social consequences of these two scenarios: business-as-usual and a gender-equitable, investment-led alternative. The results show that the aims of economic growth and increased employment targeted at women can be achieved via the adoption of gender-sensitive expansionary macroeconomic policies. Such a macroeconomic strategy is economically feasible, leading to substantial gains in terms of job creation for both women and men, as well as accelerated growth and reductions in dependency costs, government debts and fiscal deficits. Thus, the recommendations that stem from this analysis are to significantly increase public and private investment in both social and physical infrastructure; and to slowdown the pace of fiscal consolidation
Finance and industrial policy: beyond financial regulation in Europe
No full textThe 2008 global financial crisis, together with the experience of de-industrialization across Western Europe over the last three decades, has focussed attention on financial regulation and industrial policy.
Industry and finance policies have largely been discussed separately, and this book argues that the two should be considered together, in both analysis and policy formulation that deals with critical questions of how finance has intervened in industrial restructuring and how it might better serve the real economy. Moreover, policy debates have paid relatively little attention to the heterogeneous economic structures and growth trajectories of European economies, and the interconnectedness and interdependencies of growth paths that present specific challenges to policy and highlight the need for cooperation across the region.
This book brings together leading scholars and policy makers to contribute to policy debates in three ways. First, it includes current discussions of banking policy, regulation, and reform to reassert the need for financial institutions that will back up and finance an industrial policy to revive the European economy. Second, it reviews the role of industrial and investment policy in supporting innovation, creating jobs, and generating sustainable economic growth. Third, it advances alternative policy proposals aimed at generating sustainable economic growth and employment in Europe. Part I analyses the nature of growth, industrial, and economic restructuring in relation to finance in the lead up to the crisis, at regional, national, and sector levels. Part II presents alternative and progressive policy proposals for growth and employment in Europe in light of the analysis presented in Part I
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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