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Ideal Point (ideal + point)

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Humanities and Social Sciences60%

Selected Abstracts

Multiple Referrals and Multidimensional Cheap Talk

ECONOMETRICA, Issue 4 2002
Marco Battaglini
In previous work on cheap talk, uncertainty has almost always been modeled using a single,dimensional state variable. In this paper we prove that the dimensionality of the uncertain variable has an important qualitative impact on results and yields interesting insights into the "mechanics" of information transmission. Contrary to the unidimensional case, if there is more than one sender, full revelation of information in all states of nature is generically possible, even when the conflict of interest is arbitrarily large. What really matters in transmission of information is the local behavior of senders' indifference curves at the ideal point of the receiver, not the proximity of players' ideal point. [source]

From doves to hawks: A spatial analysis of voting in the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL RESEARCH, Issue 6 2010
SIMON HIX
This article examines the making of monetary policy in the United Kingdom between 1997 and 2008 by analysing voting behaviour in the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). It provides a new set of measures for the monetary policy preferences of individual MPC members by estimating a Bayesian item response model. The article demonstrates the usefulness of these measures by comparing the ideal points of outgoing MPC members with their successors and by looking at changes over time in the median ideal point on the MPC. The analysis indicates that the British Government has been able to move the position of the median voter on the MPC through its appointments to the Committee. This highlights the importance of central bank appointments for monetary policy. [source]

The road: An ethnography of the Albanian,Greek cross-border motorway

AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 1 2010
DIMITRIS DALAKOGLOU
ABSTRACT This article is an ethnographic study of a 29-kilometer stretch of cross-border highway located in South Albania and linking the city of Gjirokastėr with the main checkpoint on the Albanian,Greek border. The road, its politics, and its poetics constitute an ideal point of entry for an anthropological analysis of contemporary South Albania. The physical and social construction, uses, and perceptions of this road uniquely encapsulate three phenomena that dominate social life in postsocialist South Albania: the transition to a market economy, new nationalisms, and massive emigration (mainly to Greece). Taking this cross-border road section as my main ethnographic point of reference, I suggest the fruitfulness of further discussion of the relationship between roads, narratives, and anthropology. [source]

From doves to hawks: A spatial analysis of voting in the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL RESEARCH, Issue 6 2010
SIMON HIX
This article examines the making of monetary policy in the United Kingdom between 1997 and 2008 by analysing voting behaviour in the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). It provides a new set of measures for the monetary policy preferences of individual MPC members by estimating a Bayesian item response model. The article demonstrates the usefulness of these measures by comparing the ideal points of outgoing MPC members with their successors and by looking at changes over time in the median ideal point on the MPC. The analysis indicates that the British Government has been able to move the position of the median voter on the MPC through its appointments to the Committee. This highlights the importance of central bank appointments for monetary policy. [source]