Avoiding Disinformation Traps in COVID-19

Avoiding Liquidity Traps∗

Once the zero bound on nominal interest rates is taken into account, Taylor-type interest-rate feedback rules give rise to unintended self-fulfilling decelerating inflation paths and aggregate fluctuations driven by arbitrary revisions in expectations. These undesirable equilibria exhibit the essential features of liquidity traps, as monetary policy is ineffective in bringing about the governme...

Explanation of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Crisis Based on Disinformation Theory: A commentary

Avoiding the poverty traps from chronic disease

less than a fundamental realignment of the global order. Current income growth in these countries is paired with a rapid demographic and epidemiologic transition. The aging population and the increasing prevalence of chronic noncommunicable diseases (such as heart attack, stroke, diabetes mellitus, respiratory diseases and cancer) pose considerable challenges to the weak health care systems in ...

CT colonography: avoiding traps and pitfalls

Computed tomographic colonography (CTC) is a reliable technique for detecting tumoral lesions in the colon. However, good performance of polyp detection is only achieved if experienced CTC radiologists combine meticulous interpretation with state-of-the-art CTC technique. To reach this experience level, CTC training is mandatory. With a considerably long and steep learning curve, it has been de...

Tips and Strategies for Avoiding Psychological Traps

Each day, law enforcement professionals throughout the nation make thousands of decisions. While many of these judgments require little, if any, conscious deliberation and involve few noteworthy consequences, others carry significant implications for officers, their organizations, and the public. Bad decisions can damage an officer’s career, harm public trust, and expose an agency to costly lit...