Human-centric research and innovation for the manufacturing sector
How can stakeholders in the industrial innovation ecosystem leverage human-centric approaches to technology, education, and policy to drive Industry 5.0 advancements and improve worker wellbeing, safety, and skills?
Geopolitical risk perceptions
How can geopolitical risk be measured effectively given its lack of a universal standard? Yevheniia Bondarenko, Vivien Lewis and Yves Schüler discuss a new approach to developing geopolitical risk indicators using local newspaper coverage to capture diverse perceptions.
Industrial Policies for Innovation: A Cost-Benefit Framework
When and how should governments use industrial policy to direct innovation to specific sectors? Daniel Garcia-Macia and Alexandre Sollaci discuss a framework for analyzing the costs and benefits of industrial innovation policies, revealing that sector-specific fiscal support outperforms sector-neutral support only under stringent conditions while showing that most advanced economies, including China and the U.S., tend to over-subsidize innovation despite broadly targeting the right sectors.
The Impact of the 2022 Oil Embargo and Price Cap on Russian Oil Prices
How did the 2022 oil embargo and price cap impact Russian oil exports and pricing, particularly in terms of discounts on Urals crude and shifts in bargaining power with India and China?
Diversity and Social Mobility in the UK legal profession
I. Stephanie Boyce provides a current snapshot of diversity within the UK legal profession and how to drive inclusion going forward.
Olivier Blanchard on U.S. Pandemic-Era Inflation
Olivier Blanchard discusses the direct and indirect effects of product-market and labor-market shocks on prices and nominal wages. Professor Blanchard suggests most of the inflation surge that began in 2021 was the result of shocks to prices given wages, including sharp increases in commodity prices and sectoral shortages. However, the effects of overheated labor markets on nominal wage growth and inflation are more persistent than the effects of product-market shocks.
Peter Cappelli on the Future of the Office
Peter Cappelli lays out the facts in an effort to provide everyone involved with a vision of their futures.
Paul Ginsparg, arXiv founder, on peer review
Paul Ginsparg, founder of the e-print repository arXiv.org, discusses the peer review process. Paul Ginsparg is a graduate of Syosset High School, Syosset, New York. He graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in physics and from Cornell…
The adapted mind
Jerome Barkow discusses the Ancient Greeks and Romans and their impact on Western civilization.
James S. Jackson and the program for research on Black Americans
James S. Jackson is remembered as a groundbreaking social psychologist whose career contributions in scholarship, research, and service were fundamental to the field of psychology. David R. Williams outlines his career-long work and contributions.
Econometric Modelling of the Aggregate Time Series Relationship Between Consumers Expenditure and Income in the UK
Simple time‐series representations dominated quarterly permanent‐income/life‐cycle models of consumption in fit and predictive accuracy. However, an ‘error‐correction’model (ECM, using the log consumption/income ratio) reconciled both the theories and the evidence, and treated as the DGP, explained the connection between the time‐series and econometric equations.
Gravity with Gravitas: A Solution to the Border Puzzle
Gravity equations have been widely used to infer trade flow effects of various institutional arrangements. James Anderson discusses a method to solve the famous McCallum border puzzle.
The US-China Trade War and Global Reallocations
How did the US-China trade war create new export opportunities for “bystander” countries, and how did tariff elasticities and supply dynamics determine whether they benefited by acting as substitutes or complements to US and Chinese exports?
Efficient Likelihood Evaluation of State-Space Representations
How can the evaluation of state-space integrals be made more efficient? “Efficient Likelihood Evaluation of State-Space Representations” introduces the EIS filter, building on previous particle filter methods, to provide continuous and adapted approximations that enhance the computation of these integrals, particularly in applications like DSGE models.
Not in the Job Description: The Commercial Activities of Academic Scientists and Engineers
Do you know what motivates academic scientists and engineers to engage in commercial activities? New research reveals how desires for recognition, challenge, money, and impact drive patenting differently across life sciences, physical sciences, and engineering, highlighting the need for nuanced understanding in policy and management.
Geopolitical risk perceptions
How can geopolitical risk be measured effectively given its lack of a universal standard? Yevheniia Bondarenko, Vivien Lewis and Yves Schüler discuss a new approach to developing geopolitical risk indicators using local newspaper coverage to capture diverse perceptions.
Human Rights and Corruption: Problems and Potential of Individualising a Systemic Problem
Anne Peters examines the pitfalls and potentials of the recent deliberate legal-political strategy of individualising the systemic problem of corruption.
Court-Packing in Context
What alternative judicial reforms were proposed during the 1937 Court-packing crisis, and how might revisiting these lesser-known proposals inform today’s debate on Supreme Court reform?
Understanding Global Legal Pluralism
How can understanding global legal pluralism enhance our approach to managing the complex web of multiple, overlapping legal systems and regulatory bodies in today’s interconnected world?
The False Choice Between Digital Regulation and Innovation
Are we sacrificing innovation for digital regulation, or is there a more nuanced relationship between the two? Anu Bradorrd provides a balanced perspective that challenges the conventional wisdom and emphasizes a complex interplay between regulation, technological progress, and foundational economic structures.
Casualties of War? Refining the Civilian-Military Dichotomy in World War I
Throughout the First World War, newspapers around the world mocked the British state for its lavish spending on captured German officers kept at Donington Hall, a refurbished English estate. Why was this camp such a controversial space of perceived decadence?
Not in My Backyard
Rae Ely was a pivotal figure in the early 1970s, leading efforts to preserve Green Springs, Virginia, from proposed developments like a state prison and a strip mine.
The Mughal Royal Court Progress and the Conquest Landscape
How did the Mughal rulers’ initial disdain for the landscapes of South Asia transform into a deep appreciation, and what role did their peripatetic royal court play in fostering this intimate connection with the lands they governed?
The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert
John W.I. Lee discusses the groundbreaking life of John Wesley Gilbert, an African American scholar who rose from slavery to become a pioneering archaeologist, educator, and advocate for interracial cooperation, contributing to archaeology in Greece and missionary work in Africa.
Intersectionality: A critical framework for mainstream health psychology
How might embracing intersectionality in mainstream health psychology transform our understanding and approach to health equity and social justice issues?
Seasonal variations in auditory processing in the inferior colliculus of Eptesicus fuscus
How do seasonal changes in hormonal status shape the auditory processing of bats, particularly influencing male and female responses to vocalizations throughout the year?
A quasi-comprehensive exploration of the mechanisms of spatial working memory
Why do some spatial patterns stick in our memory more than others? Liqiang Huang delves into the intricate mechanisms behind spatial working memory by integrating multiple theories into a single conceptual model.
Zombie leadership: Dead ideas that still walk among us
Alex Haslam explores the concept of “zombie leadership” by outlining eight core claims, or axioms, that define this phenomenon.
Planning for the Wrong Pandemic
Why did expertly Why did expertly devised planning tools both clarify and obscure the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and how can this insight change our preparation for future crises?
Paradoxes of Neoliberalism
How do neoliberal policies and practices persist despite global upheaval and social inequalities, and how do sexual politics shape both statecraft and community-based resistance across diverse global contexts?
How Black and White Women Innovate with Situationships at Midlife
How are midlife women reshaping the bounds of intimacy without the pressures of traditional commitment? Our study uncovers how Black and white women, frustrated with conventional relationships, are innovating with ‘situationships’—a blend of casual and committed liaisons—to maintain autonomy and explore romantic and sexual fulfillment.
The Battle for the Black Mind
How has the struggle to control the education of African Americans from the Civil War to Brown v. Board of Education shaped racial inequalities and defined access to American democracy? Discover the pivotal roles of philanthropies, religious groups, and black educators in “The Battle for the Black Mind” by Dr. Karida Brown.
