Discussion 1

Final Discussion 1

Lately, I’ve been watching television, and one of the people I see on it a lot is Tina Turner. Now Tina may seem to be an odd person to introduce into a central bank conference, but her songs have titles that fit pretty well with some of the issues raised by this Conference. First up, there is the line that she belts out on television in support of the local football code, while standing on wha...

Summary of Discussion-Session 1.

Squibs and Discussion 1 Introduction

The contrast in the semantics of Turkish object NPs with and without overt case morphology has received some attention in the literature (see, e.g., Dede 1986, Knecht 1986, Tura 1986, Enç 1991). The NPs with overt case morphology in (1a) and (1b) yield specific readings, whereas the NPs without case morphology in (1c) and (1d) are nonspecific. In this squib, I will examine nonspecific objects a...

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1

Is Job Stability Declining in Germany? Evidence from Count Data Models The macro evidence of increased adjustment pressure since the early seventies suggests that job mobility should have increased. Hence, retrospective and spell data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are combined in order to test the hypothesis that job stability for German workers declined between 1974 and 1994. Using coun...

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Computing with words (CWW) means different things to different people. This article is the start of a position paper, written by some of the members of the CIS Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee Task Force on CWW, that answers the question “What does CWW mean to me?” 1 Chairman of the CWW task force. All of the other authors are members of this task force. 2 This is a task force of the Fuzzy Sys...