Mass Media and Special Interest Groups

Special interest groups

The Society has several Special Interest Groups which organise meetings and other activities to enable the exchange of information and views within specific areas of meteorology. These are informal groups of professionals interested in specific technical areas of meteorology. The groups are primarily a way of communicating at a specialist level and are organized and often financed by the group ...

Special interest groups

The Society has several Special Interest Groups which organise meetings and other activities to enable the exchange of information and views within specific areas of meteorology. These are informal groups of professionals interested in specific technical areas of meteorology. The groups are primarily a way of communicating at a specialist level and are organized and often financed by the group ...

Special Interest Groups

Special-Interest Groups and Volatility

This paper explores the relationship between special-interest groups and volatility of GDP growth. In an unbalanced panel of 108 countries, we find a significant negative relationship between the number of interest groups in a country and the volatility of GDP growth. Citation: Coates, Dennis, Jac Heckelman, and Bonnie Wilson, (2007) "Special-Interest Groups and Volatility." Economics Bulletin,...

Special-interest groups and growth

This paper explores empirically the relation between special-interest groups and economic growth. Our analysis exploits new data on the number of groups observed across countries and time, in order to mitigate the identification problems associated with earlier studies. Also in contrast to earlier work, we examine the impact of groups on two sources of growth—capital accumulation and technologi...