This paper explores the relationships behind previous findings that Federal Reserve interest rate policies have a larger impact on black unemployment compared to white unemployment. Most earlier studies employ a VAR methodology, which does not, however, permit a structural analysis of key relationships. This paper accounts for the endogeneity of unemployment, inflation, and the federal funds ra...

My interests focus on the comparison between the abductive argumentation supporting a conjecture and the related proof. In particular, .the purpose of my research is to show the importance of a structural analysis between them (from an abductive argumentation to a deductive proof, from an abductive argumentation to an abductive “proof”). I propose the Toulmin’s model as a tool which can be used...