Systematic Desensitization: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Issues

Polarization and Conflict: Theoretical and Empirical Issues

Authors ́ note: This paper is part of the Polarization and Conflict Project CIT-2-CT-2004506084 funded by the European Commission-DG Research Sixth Framework Programme. Most of the articles that are included here have been presented at a meeting of the PAC research group at the University of Konstanz in June 2005. We would like to thank Nils Petter Gleditsch, Frank Wayman and the contributors to...

Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Demand Analysis

Sleep debt : Theoretical and empirical issues *

The term ‘sleep debt’ is widely used to describe the effects of sleep loss. The construct of sleep debt, however, is poorly defined in the scientific literature. Cumulative build-up of sleep pressure appears to be a key feature of sleep debt. The concepts of ‘core sleep’ and ‘basal sleep need’ have been proposed to provide a theoretical framework, albeit without strong empirical basis. It has b...

Panoramic Issues and Empirical Evidence

The paper examines a wide range of issues relating to the mix between loans and grants as well as the degree of concessionality of loans. A number of empirical tests are carried out based on annual panel data over 1970 to 1999 for 22 donor countries and 72 recipient countries. Based on the tests, we are able to identify a number of economic and political factors that have influenced donors’ pas...

Empirical and theoretical evidence of economic chaos

Empirical and theoretical investigations of chaotic phenomena in macroeconomic systems are presented. Basic issues and techniques in testing economic aggregate movements are discussed. Evidence of low dimensional strange attractors is found in several empirical monetary aggregates. A continuous time deterministic model with delayed feedback is proposed to describe the monetary growth. Phase tra...