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  2. Procyclical and countercyclical variables - Wikipedia

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    The effect of the single Eurozone interest rate on the relatively high-inflation countries in the Eurozone periphery is also pro-cyclical, leading to very low or even negative real interest rates during an upturn which magnifies the boom (e.g. 'Celtic Tiger' upturn in Ireland) and property and asset price bubbles whose subsequent bust magnifies ...

  3. Causal loop diagram - Wikipedia

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    A positive causal link can be said to lead to a change in the same direction, and an opposite link can be said to lead to change in the opposite direction, i.e. if the variable in which the link starts increases, the other variable decreases and vice versa. The words without arrows are loop labels.

  4. Economic stability - Wikipedia

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    Real macroeconomic output can be decomposed into a trend and a cyclical part, where the variance of the cyclical series derived from the filtering technique (e.g., the band-pass filter, or the most commonly used Hodrick–Prescott filter) serves as the primary measure of departure from economic stability.

  5. Binary opposition - Wikipedia

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    Binary opposition is the system of language and/or thought by which two theoretical opposites are strictly defined and set off against one another. [1] It is the contrast between two mutually exclusive terms, such as on and off, up and down, left and right. [ 2 ]

  6. Scientific terminology - Wikipedia

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    Scientific terminology is the part of the language that is used by scientists in the context of their professional activities. While studying nature, scientists often encounter or create new material or immaterial objects and concepts and are compelled to name them.

  7. Empirical research - Wikipedia

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    In other words, it describes the research that has not taken place before and their results. In practice, the accumulation of evidence for or against any particular theory involves planned research designs for the collection of empirical data , and academic rigor plays a large part of judging the merits of research design .

  8. Cycle - Wikipedia

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    Cyclical theory, a theory of American political history associated with Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. Social cycle, various cycles in social sciences Business cycle, the downward and upward movement of gross domestic product (GDP) around its ostensible, long-term growth trend

  9. Social cycle theory - Wikipedia

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    Social cycle theories are among the earliest social theories in sociology.Unlike the theory of social evolutionism, which views the evolution of society and human history as progressing in some new, unique direction(s), sociological cycle theory argues that events and stages of society and history generally repeat themselves in cycles.