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Economic Component (economic + component)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Humanities and Social Sciences	33%
Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	33%

Selected Abstracts

LAND RICH AND DATA POOR: MODELLING REQUIREMENTS IN AUSTRALIA'S FAR NORTH

ECONOMIC PAPERS: A JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECONOMICS AND POLICY, Issue 3 2005
Natalie Stoeckl
Economic models have long been used as a way of organising and presenting information for policy makers interested in large regions,e.g. nations,and recent advances in information technology make the goal of developing models for decision makers in other locales a realistic one. The research on which this paper focuses was part of large project investigating the feasibility and desirability of developing a multi-disciplinary computer model of the Australian Savannas. In the large project, researchers were broken in to three teams: those considering the biophysical, demographic, and economic aspects of the modelling problem. This paper presents findings from part of the economic component of the investigation: that which sought information from key local ,stakeholders' about the type of information that would be useful to them. Responses indicate that many of Australia's existing economic models are capable of providing the ,right' type of information; but at too coarse a geographic scale for those in remote regions. Evidently, there is a need for developing other models. [source]

A methodological framework of preparing economic evidence for selection of medicines in the Chinese setting

JOURNAL OF EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE, Issue 3 2010
Xin Sun
Medicines are becoming a major component of health expenditure in China. Selection of effective and cost-effective medicines represents an important effort to improve medicines use. A guideline on cost-effectiveness studies has been available in China. This guideline, however, fails to be a practical tool to prepare and critically appraise economic evidence. This article discusses, in the Chinese context, the approach to integrating economic component into the medicines selection, and elaborates the methods of producing economic evidence, including conducing economic reviews and primary economic studies. [source]

Understanding Barriers to Peace: Reflecting on Israeli,Palestinian Economic Negotiations

NEGOTIATION JOURNAL, Issue 3 2004
Bari Bar-Zion
Drawing on relevant negotiations literature, this article describes some of the main barriers in the negotiation process between Israel and the Palestinian Authority as experienced by the author between the years 1998,2000. The analysis of these barriers is viewed through a prism of one case study: the negotiations regarding the economic component of the Wye River Memorandum. By subjecting that two-year negotiation process to a reflective analysis, this article not only attempts to shed light on the case presented, but also to help identify a wider range of barriers and behaviors that characterize the ongoing negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. [source]

THE DECLINE IN THE VOLATILITY OF THE BUSINESS CYCLES IN THE UK

THE MANCHESTER SCHOOL, Issue 2008
CHRISTINA V. ATANASOVA
We analyse the sources of the decline of business cycle volatility in the UK using a dynamic factor model that allows for the presence of a structural break in the conditional mean and variance of output, sales, income and unemployment. We augment the factor model with an economic component to investigate the role of structural changes and improved monetary policy in the volatility decline of the series. Our results suggest that the dominant cause for the observed volatility decline is the reduced variability of shocks. [source]

The Underside of Conflict Management , in Africa and Elsewhere

IDS BULLETIN, Issue 1 2001
Laura Nader
Summaries This article traces the evolution of thought on dispute resolution in recent decades and takes a critical look at its latest incarnation, the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) revolution. It argues that ADR is premised on the harmony model of law that denies the unequal power of disputing parties and ignores issues of social justice. It calls for a real dialogue by serious scholars willing to examine the now plentiful evidence of the performance of ADR devices. The article also shows that dispute resolution is not autonomous from other social and economic components of social systems, and that as a consequence it is not possible to divorce law and power. Any ADR scheme, therefore, needs careful study of the social conditions in which it may operate. [source]

The Economic Value of Soil Quality under Alternative Management in the Canadian Prairies

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, Issue 2 2003
K. W. Belcher
This paper describes a dynamic simulation model that integrates environmental and economic components of agricultural crop production systems to predict changes in soil quality and the concomitant impact on economic returns. The model is used to simulate crop yield, soil quality and economic performance of a conventional crop rotation and several alternative crop rotations in two contrasting environments in western Canada over a 50-year period. This information is used to quantify the impact of the crop rotations on soil organic carbon (SOC) and the economic value of on-site SOC changes. The estimated value of these impacts range from $0.20/t to $2.10/t of SOC/ha/yr. Les auteurs décrivent un modèle de simulation dynamique intégrant les paramètres environnementaux et économiques des systèmes de production végétale pour prévoir la qualityé du sol et l'incidence de cette dernière sur les rentrées. Le modèle simule le rendement des cultures, la qualityé du sol et la performance économique d'un système d'assolement classique et de plusieurs de ses variantes, dans deux milieux contrastants de l'ouest du Canada, sur une période de 50 ans. Les résultats ont permis de quantifier l'incidence de l'assolement sur la teneur du sol en carbone organique et la valeur économique des fluctuations d'une telle concentration. Les auteurs situent cette incidence entre 0.20 $ et 2,10 $ la tonne de carbone organique par hectare et par année. [source]