VOLUME 6 • 2007
BARELY TRUE SUBJUNCTIVE CONDITIONALS AND ANTI-REALISM
ABSTRACT. Phenomenalism, as has often been observed, is an untenable position because it is committed to there being barely true subjunctive conditionals. In this paper I argue that all anti-realists are committed to there being such conditionals, and so if phenomenalism is untenable because of this..
IDENTIFICATION AND THE LIQUIDITY EFFECT OF MONETARY POLICY SHOCKS
ABSTRACT. Bhuiyan assumes that the money demand function is a function of the contemporaneous values of the ex ante real interest rate, inflationary expectations and income level. Duarte studies the implications of nontraded goods for the nature of relative price differentials across countries under..
THE MONETARY TRANSMISSION MECHANISM AND IDENTIFYING THE EFFECTS OF MONETARY POLICY SHOCKS
ABSTRACT. Bhuiyan proposes to incorporate a forward-looking dimension into the monetary policy rule, by adding inflationary expectations as a contemporaneous input, to identify the policy shoch in the structural VAR model. Duarte claims that when prices are preset in the currency of the buyer, unant..
COPYRIGHT, THE MUSIC BUSINESS, AND THE RISE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
ABSTRACT. Mazumder notes that copyright law is concerned with the negative right of preventing the copying of physical material. Hesmondhalgh examines the implications of digitalization for musical production, distribution and consumption, as a particular and distinct case of the dynamics of digital..
EMPIRICAL RESEARCH IN ACCOUNTING CHOICE
ABSTRACT. Herrmann et al. examine the effect of changes in Japanese consolidation policy on financial analysts' perceptions of the persistence of subsidiary earnings. Lehman and Okcabol demonstrate how accounting is implicated in national immigration issues, and illustrate how accounting numbers are..
MEASURING MONETARY POLICY SHOCKS
ABSTRACT. Fielding and Shields remark that an increase in the share of wholesale and retail firms in total employment is associated with greater sensitivity to monetary policy shocks. Using a structural VAR approach, Sousa and Zaghini find that after a monetary policy shock output declines temporari..
MONETARY POLICY, EXCHANGE RATE, AND REAL STABILIZATION
ABSTRACT. Bils et al. state that models with sticky prices predict that monetary policy changes will affect relative prices and relative quantities in the short run because some prices are more flexible than others. Svensson claims that monetary policy actions in industrialized countries normally af..
MULTIPERSPECTIVAL MIXED NEWS MATTERS
ABSTRACT. Alleyne holds that news media have derived power from their ability to determine the definition of news. Meikle writes that news coverage becomes "conversational", developing a form of ever-unfinished media. Hartley says that television provides a mechanism for communicating across class, ..
RECONFIGURING JOURNALISM IN THE EPOCH OF THE MULTI-MEDIA WORLD
ABSTRACT. Manovich writes that the numerical coding of media and the modular structure of a media object allow for the automation of many operations involved in media creation, manipulation, and access. Gans claims that it is proper to ask who should be responsible for story selection and production..
THE TECHNOLOGY OF MASS COMMUNICATION AND THE PRACTICE OF JOURNALISM
ABSTRACT. Knight notes that journalists inhabit a culture of ideas which shape the way they report, select, edit and prioritise news. Meyer maintains that precision journalism employs social science survey methods to gather statistics which could be used as the basis of news stories. Hastings remark..
EMOTIONAL RESPONSE, HARMONIC PROCESSES, AND MUSICAL STYLE
ABSTRACT. Liszt's mastery of the Romantic orchestra was entirely beholden to symphonic principles of elaboration (Mann). Palmer highlights the perceptual consequences of music performance, including the successful communication of interpretations, resolution of structural ambiguities, and concordanc..
COGNITIVE FOUNDATIONS OF MUSICAL MEANING
ABSTRACT. Tarasti claims that to write a fugue means the principle of Soi in composition (a strictly coded musical technique). According to Mann, in Wagner's language the orchestral comment became the primary agent in conveying dramatic situations and philosophical concepts. Adorno notes that music ..