Introduction: Reflecting on History when Markets Tumble

Could short selling make financial markets tumble?

It is suggested to consider long term trends of financial markets as a growth phenomenon. The question that is asked is what conditions are needed for a long term sustainable growth or contraction in a financial market? The paper discuss the role of traditional market players of long only mutual funds versus hedge funds which take both short and long positions. It will be argued that financial ...

Reflecting on imitation in autism: introduction to the special issue.

In response to our call for papers for a special issue of Journal of Experimental Child Psychology on functions and mechanisms of imitation in childhood, we received a surprisingly large number of manuscripts on a wide range of topics. We were happy and encouraged that so much interesting work is being done on imitation, and sorry that space and time constraints meant that we could not publish ...

A geological history of reflecting optics.

Optical reflectors in animals are diverse and ancient. The first image-forming eye appeared around 543 million years ago. This introduced vision as a selection pressure in the evolution of animals, and consequently the evolution of adapted optical devices. The earliest known optical reflectors--diffraction gratings--are 515 Myr old. The subsequent fossil record preserves multilayer reflectors, ...

Primer on medical history for anesthesiologists: introduction.

Introduction to ‘ Innovative Auction Markets

This special issue of EM — Electronic Markets on ‘Innovative Auction Markets’ illustrates the increasingly pervasive and diverse applications of online auctions. From auctions for keywords tied to search engines, to B2B and financial auctions, or the use of auctions to generate predictive information for decision making — online auctions are becoming more widely applied in practice. Since the l...