Are the Laffer curve and the green paradox mutually exclusive?

Concurrent behavior: are the interpretations mutually exclusive?

The experimental literature is replete with examples of behavior which occur concurrently with a schedule of reinforcement. These concurrent behaviors, often with similar topographies and occurring under like circumstances, may be interpreted as functionally autonomous, collateral, adjunctive, superstitious or mediating behavior. The degree to which the interaction of concurrent and schedule co...

The Laffer curve for high incomes

An expression for the La er curve for high incomes is derived, assuming a constant Pareto parameter and elasticity of taxable income. The peak of this La er curve is given by the well-known Saez (2001) expression. Microsimulations using Swedish population data show that the simulated curve matches the theoretically derived La er curve well, suggesting that the analytical expression is not too m...

Remembering when Words are Mutually Exclusive

During the second year of life, infants develop a ‘mutual exclusivity’ bias to attach novel object labels to novel, nameunknown objects, rather than familiar, name-known objects (Markman, 1989). In an intermodal preferential looking experiment with 19.5and 22.5-month-old infants, stimulus repetition was critical for observing mutual exclusivity. On the first occasion that a novel label was pres...

Containing costs and containing bugs: are they mutually exclusive?

BACKGROUND The overall health care costs for managing patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in U.S. hospitals is burdensome. While pharmacy costs comprise only a minor proportion of these costs, hospital length of stay (LOS) is the greatest contributor. Infections due to antimicrobial-resistant pathogens are also associated with increased overall health care cost. Therefore, strategi...

Eosinophilic leukemia and idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome are mutually exclusive diagnoses.