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Selected AbstractsTHE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND CRIMINOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE: 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY,CRIMINOLOGY, Issue 1 2009ROBERT J. BURSIK JR. First page of article [source] PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: THE ETHICS OF RECOGNITION, RESPONSIBILITY, AND RESPECTBIOETHICS, Issue 9 2009MATTI HÄYRY ABSTRACT Ethics can be understood as a code of behaviour or as the study of codes of behaviour. While the mission of the International Association of Bioethics is a scholarly examination of moral issues in health care and the biological sciences, many people in the field believe that it is also their task to create new and better codes of practice. Both ways of doing bioethics are sound, but it is important to be aware of the distinction. In this paper, I will study the sources and aims of ethics and suggest a code of conduct for bioethicists based on recognition, responsibility, and respect. [source] POVERTY AND INEQUALITY: CHALLENGES FOR THE IAB: IAB PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSBIOETHICS, Issue 5-6 2005FLORENCIA LUNA ABSTRACT This paper focuses on poverty and inequality in the world today. First, it points out how this topic is a main concern for the IAB. Second, it proposes ,new' theoretical tools in order to analyze global justice and our obligations towards the needy. I present John Rawls's denial that the egalitarian principle can be applied to the global sphere, his proposed weak duty of assistance, and his consideration of endemic poverty as essentially homegrown. In opposition, I focus on Thomas Pogge as representative of a cosmopolitan view who also holds a critical position towards the international systems which allow and cause poverty. I endorse the general normative proposal that defends every human being as an ultimate unit of moral concern, as well as the strategy of moving away from the charity model of bilateral aid to the realm of rights and duties. These ideas should redesign and broaden the normative and practical roles of institutions, and should also help provide a new approach on bioethical issues such as drug patenting or the imbalance in global research and neglected diseases. [source] NCME 2009 Presidential Address: "What I Think I Know"EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT: ISSUES AND PRACTICE, Issue 3 2010Mark D Reckase First page of article [source] 2006 Presidential Address: Errors and Omissions: Some Illustrations From Unpublished ResearchEDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT: ISSUES AND PRACTICE, Issue 1 2007James C. Impara First page of article [source] 2007 Presidential Address: Singing and SolidarityJOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION, Issue 2 2008R. STEPHEN WARNER As the audience entered the hall, a large screen displayed the title of the talk from an overhead projector. On the dais, about three feet above the floor, was a lectern, and next to it an arrangement of eight chairs facing each other in a square formation, two on each side of the square, the sides at a 45 degree angle from the side of the platform. At the appointed time, SSSR past-president Donald Miller climbed the steps to the lectern to introduce the speaker, Stephen Warner. When he had completed that task, Warner came forward to the lectern and a woman later identified as his wife, Anne Heider, began working the projector. A few minutes into the address, at Warner's cue, she and six others joined him on the dais, taking seats in the arrangement of chairs, from which position, facing each other with Warner standing facing toward them, they sang a song, as described below. When they were finished, they left the dais, and the rest of the address proceeded in a conventional manner. Prior to this singing demonstration, the address itself began as follows. [source] 2006 SSSR Presidential Address,Progressive Pentecostals: The New Face of Christian Social EngagementJOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION, Issue 4 2007DONALD E. MILLER First page of article [source] 2005 SSSR Presidential Address: On Being a Community of Scholars,Practicing the Study of ReligionJOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION, Issue 2 2006NANCY T. AMMERMAN First page of article [source] SSSR Presidential Address, 2004: Putting an End to Ancestor WorshipJOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION, Issue 4 2004RODNEY STARK First page of article [source] Challenges and Options for the UK Agri-Environment: Presidential AddressJOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, Issue 3 2000Martin Whitby After fifteen years of agri-environment policy it is now appropriate to take stock of these policies. This is important because these policies are scheduled to expand in the coming decade, their benefits are likely to continue growing and the demand for benefits is also likely to expand. This paper therefore reviews the current agri-environmental situation, isolating some of the current challenges to the schemes implemented in the UK, and compares main options for their amelioration. Finally it focuses particularly on the "end of contract problem" arising from the weak sustainability of the policy benefits from short-term voluntary contracts. [source] Introduction for Louis A. Penner's SPSSI Presidential AddressJOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES, Issue 3 2004Geoffrey Maruyama No abstract is available for this article. [source] Introduction to Geoff Maruyama's Presidential Address, June 29, 2002JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES, Issue 3 2003Jennifer Crocker No abstract is available for this article. [source] Presidential Address: Asset Price Dynamics with Slow-Moving CapitalTHE JOURNAL OF FINANCE, Issue 4 2010DARRELL DUFFIE ABSTRACT I describe asset price dynamics caused by the slow movement of investment capital to trading opportunities. The pattern of price responses to supply or demand shocks typically involves a sharp reaction to the shock and a subsequent and more extended reversal. The amplitude of the immediate price impact and the pattern of the subsequent recovery can reflect institutional impediments to immediate trade, such as search costs for trading counterparties or time to raise capital by intermediaries. I discuss special impediments to capital formation during the recent financial crisis that caused asset price distortions, which subsided afterward. After presenting examples of price reactions to supply shocks in normal market settings, I offer a simple illustrative model of price dynamics associated with slow-moving capital due to the presence of inattentive investors. [source] Presidential Address: Sophisticated Investors and Market EfficiencyTHE JOURNAL OF FINANCE, Issue 4 2009JEREMY C. STEIN ABSTRACT Stock-market trading is increasingly dominated by sophisticated professionals, as opposed to individual investors. Will this trend ultimately lead to greater market efficiency? I consider two complicating factors. The first is crowding,the fact that, for a wide range of "unanchored" strategies, an arbitrageur cannot know how many of his peers are simultaneously entering the same trade. The second is leverage,when an arbitrageur chooses a privately optimal leverage ratio, he may create a fire-sale externality that raises the likelihood of a severe crash. In some cases, capital regulation may be helpful in dealing with the latter problem. [source] Presidential Address: The Cost of Active InvestingTHE JOURNAL OF FINANCE, Issue 4 2008KENNETH R. FRENCH ABSTRACT I compare the fees, expenses, and trading costs society pays to invest in the U.S. stock market with an estimate of what would be paid if everyone invested passively. Averaging over 1980,2006, I find investors spend 0.67% of the aggregate value of the market each year searching for superior returns. Society's capitalized cost of price discovery is at least 10% of the current market cap. Under reasonable assumptions, the typical investor would increase his average annual return by 67 basis points over the 1980,2006 period if he switched to a passive market portfolio. [source] Presidential Address: Issuers, Underwriter Syndicates, and Aftermarket TransparencyTHE JOURNAL OF FINANCE, Issue 4 2007RICHARD C. GREEN ABSTRACT I model strategic interaction among issuers, underwriters, retail investors, and institutional investors when the secondary market has limited price transparency. Search costs for retail investors lead to price dispersion in the secondary market, while the price for institutional investors is infinitely elastic. Because retail distribution capacity is assumed to be limited for each underwriter-dealer, Bertrand competition breaks down in the primary market and new issues are underpriced in equilibrium. Syndicates emerge in which underwriters bid symmetrically, with quantities allocated internally to efficiently utilize retail distribution capacity. [source] Presidential Address, Committing to Commit: Short-term Debt When Enforcement Is CostlyTHE JOURNAL OF FINANCE, Issue 4 2004Douglas W. Diamond ABSTRACT In legal systems with expensive or ineffective contract enforcement, it is difficult to induce lenders to enforce debt contracts. If lenders do not enforce, borrowers will have incentives to misbehave. Lenders have incentives to enforce given bad news when debt is short-term and subject to runs caused by externalities across lenders. Lenders will not undo these externalities by negotiation. The required number of lenders increases with enforcement costs. A very high enforcement cost can exceed the ex ante incentive benefit of enforcement. Removing lenders' right to immediately enforce their debt with a "bail-in" can improve the ex ante incentives of borrowers. [source] Presidential Address: Liquidity and Price DiscoveryTHE JOURNAL OF FINANCE, Issue 4 2003Maureen O'Hara This paper examines the implications of market microstructure for asset pricing. I argue that asset pricing ignores the central fact that asset prices evolve in markets. Markets provide liquidity and price discovery, and I argue that asset pricing models need to be recast in broader terms to incorporate the transactions costs of liquidity and the risks of price discovery. I argue that symmetric information-based asset pricing models do not work because they assume that the underlying problems of liquidity and price discovery have been solved. I develop an asymmetric information asset pricing model that incorporates these effects. [source] Presidential Address: Do Financial Institutions Matter?THE JOURNAL OF FINANCE, Issue 4 2001Franklin Allen In standard asset pricing theory, investors are assumed to invest directly in financial markets. The role of financial institutions is ignored. The focus in corporate finance is on agency problems. How do you ensure that managers act in shareholders' interests? There is an inconsistency in assuming that when you give your money to a financial institution there is no agency problem, but when you give it to a firm there is. It is argued that both areas need to take proper account of the role of financial institutions and markets. Appropriate concepts for analyzing particular situations should be used. [source] Presidential Address: 24th International Congress of Applied Psychology, San Francisco, August 9,14, 1998APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 1 2000Applied Psychology: Past, Future Societal, Scientific Challenges First page of article [source] Progress of Rotary Blood Pumps: Presidential Address, International Society for Rotary Blood Pumps 2006, Leuven, BelgiumARTIFICIAL ORGANS, Issue 5 2007DrMed, Setsuo Takatani PhD First page of article [source] Presidential Address: Highlights of the 13th World Congress of the International Society for Artificial OrgansARTIFICIAL ORGANS, Issue 2 2003Congress President Hikaru Matsuda MD First page of article [source] The impact of astronomyASTRONOMY & GEOPHYSICS, Issue 3 2010Andy Fabian Andy Fabian assesses the variety and scope of the impact astronomy has on science, technology and society , and why it is so hard to measure , in his Presidential Address 2010. [source] Bioethics: Power and Injustice: Iab Presidential AddressBIOETHICS, Issue 5-6 2003Solomon R. Benatar ABSTRACT A major focus within the modern bioethics debate has been on reshaping power relationships within the doctor,patient relationship. Empowerment of the vulnerable has been achieved through an emphasis on human rights and respect for individual dignity. However, power imbalances remain pervasive within healthcare. To a considerable extent this relates to insufficient attention to social injustice. Such power imbalances together with the development of new forms of power, for example through new genetic biotechnology, raise the spectre of increasing social injustice. Attention will be drawn to the need to extend the bioethics debate to include ethical considerations regarding public health. Changes in political philosophy will also be required to reshape international power relations and improve population health. [source] Bioethics and Public Policy in the Next Millennium: Presidential AddressBIOETHICS, Issue 5-6 2001Ruth Macklin First page of article [source] Presidential address: How to improve poverty measurement in the United StatesJOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT, Issue 2 2008Rebecca M. Blank This paper discusses the reasons why the current official U.S. poverty measure is outdated and nonresponsive to many anti-poverty initiatives. A variety of efforts to update and improve the statistic have failed, for political, technical, and institutional reasons. Meanwhile, the European Union is taking a very different approach to poverty measurement. The paper ends with four recommended steps that would allow the U.S. to improve its measurement of poverty and economic need. [source] The Liberal Moment Fifteen Years On,INTERNATIONAL STUDIES QUARTERLY, Issue 4 20082008., 49th Convention of the International Studies Association, March 2, Presidential address, San Francisco Fifteen years ago, Charles Kegley spoke of a neoidealist moment in international relations. This article examines how the number of armed conflicts has declined in the decade and a half since Kegley's presidential address and shows that the severity of war has been declining over a period of over six decades. The number of countries participating in war has increased, but this is in large measure due to coalition-building in several recent wars. Overall, there is a clear decline of war. It seems plausible to attribute this to an increase in the three factors identified by liberal peace theorists: democracy, trade, and international organization. Four alternative interpretations are examined: the temporary peace, the hegemonic peace, the unsustainable peace, and the capitalist peace. The article concludes that the latter, while running close to the liberal peace interpretation, also presents the greatest challenge to it. Indeed, we seem to be living in a commercial liberal period rather than a world of neoidealism. [source] Münsterberg's nightmare: Psychology and history in fin-de-siècle Germany and AmericaJOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, Issue 2 2003Manuel Stoffers Lecturer This article demonstrates that Hugo Münsterberg's presidential address "Psychology and History," delivered to the American Psychological Association in 1898, should be understood in the German context of the 1890s. It constituted a response to a central feature of fin-de-siècle culture in Europe, the revolt against positivism. To be more precise, Münsterberg reacted against a new intellectual trend that was arising in Germany in the middle 1890s: the call for a historically oriented social psychology put forward by Wilhelm Dilthey,who was explicitly attacking Münsterberg's physiological conception of psychology,and new cultural historians like Karl Lamprecht and others who seemed to be putting Dilthey's program into practice. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] | |||||||||||||||||||