I enjoyed reading yet another paper by Patton and Timmermann (PT hereinafter) and feel that it has broken new ground in testing the rationality of a sequence of multi-horizon fixed target forecasts. Rationality tests are not new in the forecasting literature, but the idea of testing the monotonicity properties of second moment bounds across several horizons is novel and can suggest possible sou...

the history of islamic jurisprudence has witnessed two heterogeneous yet apparently similar trends – although in two different periods of time and manifestations. one is the akhbāriyya movement in imāmī school, which, with a new approach to practicing sharī‘a and while negating ijtihād (legal reasoning), regards intellect as being unable to achieve legal rulings. the second trend is the salafiy...

Under the influence of social environment, ideological dynamics college students have tremendously changed. Among them, biggest change is that psychological reception mechanism very different from level self-cognition. Since report 17th National Congress Communist Party China, state has formed an agenda to strengthen and political education in colleges universities, among which, it important re...

Section S.1 continues the discussion in the main text of the definition of assumption and of the relationship between assumption and the concepts of (i) infinitely more likely than (Blume, Brandenburger, and Dekel (1991), henceforth BBD) and (ii) strong belief (Battigalli and Siniscalchi (2002), henceforth B-S). The focus is on the behavior of the assumption concept in the game, theoretic setti...

The article states the stratification of university’s corporate culture as its traditional cultural base into institutional and administrative (realizing «third mission» university bearing tendency transformation a business corporation) teaching staff (which has preserved functions) culture. There are suggested ways to eliminate this mismatch.The authors substantiate role significance ideologic...