Second, many of those now discounting Sheikh Hasina s credentials are guilty of inflating those of Yunus.

SP ... These four things. Prospect theory, hyperbolic discounting, status quo bias, base rate bias. They're all well documented.

Courtesy of that discounting mechanism, the risk adjusted yield arbitrage has now started to move against emerging market securities.

High value and luxury brands were brutally affected by a wave of deep discounting in the last quarter of 2008.

These calculations indicate that, even with higher discounting, the Stern Review s estimates of future benefits and costs imply that mitigation makes economic sense.

No estimate of the pure rate of time preference, even by those who believe in relatively strong discounting of the future, has ever approached 8.5 .

Whereas the Stern Review follows a tradition among British economists and many philosophers against discounting for pure futurity, most economists take pure time preference as obvious.

Empiricism is a theory of knowledge that emphasizes the role of experience, especially sensory perception, in the formation of ideas, while discounting a priori reasoning, intuition, or revelation.

As the more than 1.1 percentage point increase in 10 year Treasury yields over the past year indicates, markets have an uncanny knack for discounting glacial events in a short period of time.

In 15.8 per cent of responding countries, the media promote attitudes of pity and compassion or negative stereotypes, in addition to discounting the role, needs and even the existence of persons with disabilities.

Other States, without discounting the use of military force in certain circumstances, view this struggle as not an entirely new phenomenon which requires enhanced international cooperation in law enforcement, intelligence gathering and sharing, extradition, and the like.

21 Debt buy backs involve buying back the claims at the net present value of the remaining cash flows the net present value is calculated by discounting cash flows at risk free rate plus a market referenced common country risk spread.

Even after discounting the consulting and technical assistance costs, countries still have to earmark huge amounts of resources for staff training, project implementation and monitoring, and report writing as well as for the day to day management and coordination of reform projects.

While not discounting that State practice might well evolve in its responses to new forms of terrorist violence, it would appear that existing humanitarian law contains no glaring legal voids and, if observed and properly applied, adequately takes account of issues of terrorism during armed conflicts.