Doves in January

Dr. Nasser Maleki (January 25, 1953 – January 6, 2012)

Of Nutters and Doves

We argue that there are conditions such that any inflation targeting regime is preferable to full policy discretion, even if long-run inflation rates are identical across regimes. The key observation is that strict inflation targeting outperforms the discretionary policy response to sufficiently persistent shocks. Under full policy discretion, inflation expectations over the medium term respond...

New doves, a new legal high?

Sir The Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney TD, declared 1-benzylpiperazine (BZP) a controlled drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 earlier this year. This has lead to the increased availability of various other legal highss s s and party pillss s s via the internet and over the counter in head shops. The National Poisons Information Centre (NPIC) has received 18 enquiries regardin...

Artificial Insemination of Pigeons and Doves

Since the development by Quinn and Burrows (1936) of a simple method of obtaining semen from and inseminating gallinaceous (chicken-like) birds, artificial insemination has made possible a number of studies on the physiology of reproduction and hybridization of these birds. An extension of the technique to the smaller birds, particularly to the pigeons and doves, holds promise as a tool for mor...

Separating the Hawks from the Doves

Human players in our laboratory experiment converge closely to the symmetric mixed Nash equilibrium when matched in a single population version of the standard Hawk-Dove game. When matched across two populations, the same players show clear movement towards an asymmetric (and very inequitable) pure Nash equilibrium of the same game. These findings support a distinctive prediction of evolutionar...