Does the Mundell-Fleming Model Apply to Malaysia's Output?

Based on an extended Mundell-Fleming model, this paper finds that both fiscal expansion and monetary expansion raise output in Malaysia and that a lower real interest rate, a higher stock value, a lower real oil price and a lower expected inflation rate increase output. Hence, a managed floating system with no predetermined path of the exchange rate adopted by Malaysia may lead to better outcomes than the predictions of the Mundell- Fleming model that fiscal expansion does not raise output under a floating exchange rate but increases output under a fixed exchange rate whereas monetary expansion increases output under a floating exchange rate but does not affect output under a fixed exchange rate (Mankiw, 2019).

Japan

This chapter focuses on the case of Japan, and its electoral reform, analyzing both the current mixed-member majoritarian (MMM) system and its former single nontransferable vote (SNTV) system. The chapter tests for impacts of electoral system change in the Liberal Democratic Party’s assignment of members to committees in the House of Representative of the Diet. It finds that the some aspects of the expertise model apply more strongly under MMM than under SNTV, but that the party follows the logic of the electoral–constituency model more than the expertise model, even under MMM. Both findings conform to theoretical expectations. The chapter also analyzes the main alternative parties in each electoral system era: the Japan Socialist Party (under SNTV) and the Democratic Party of Japan (under MMM). For these two left-leaning parties, we find considerable evidence that a party’s issue ownership matters to party personnel practices.

Emotion regulation mediates relationships between perceived childhood invalidation, emotional reactivity, and emotional eating

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is informed by the biosocial model which suggests that emotional sensitivity and childhood invalidation interact to influence emotion dysregulation, leading to behavioral disorders. Although adapted DBT interventions have resulted in improved emotional eating, little research has been conducted to examine whether key aspects of the biosocial model apply to emotional eating. Adults ( N = 258) were enrolled via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Three separate mediation analyses were performed using Hayes’ SPSS macro. Results showed that emotion regulation difficulties mediated the relationships between biosocial variables (i.e. perceived maternal and paternal invalidation and emotional reactivity) and emotional eating.

The dynamics of a new chaotic system through the Caputo–Fabrizio and Atanagan–Baleanu fractional operators

The aim of this article is to analyze the dynamics of the new chaotic system in the sense of two fractional operators, that is, the Caputo–Fabrizio and the Atangana–Baleanu derivatives. Initially, we consider a new chaotic model and present some of the fundamental properties of the model. Then, we apply the Caputo–Fabrizio derivative and implement a numerical procedure to obtain their graphical results. Further, we consider the same model, apply the Atangana–Baleanu operator, and present their analysis. The Atangana–Baleanu model is used further to present a numerical approach for their solutions. We obtain and discuss the graphical results to each operator in details. Furthermore, we give a comparison of both the operators applied on the new chaotic model in the form of various graphical results by considering many values of the fractional-order parameter [Formula: see text]. We show that at the integer case, both the models (in Caputo–Fabrizio sense and the Atangana–Baleanu sense) give the same results.

Does the Mundell-Fleming Model Apply to Australia’s Economy?

<p><em>Applying an extended Mundell-Fleming Model to Australia, this paper finds that expansionary fiscal policy does not affect output whereas expansionary monetary policy raises output. In addition, a higher real stock price, a lower real oil price or a lower expected inflation rate would increase output. Hence, the predictions of the Mundell-Fleming model works for Australia’s economy. </em></p>