The Value of Information
The Value of Information

Author: Ramanan Laxminarayan

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-08-14

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 9400748396

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The book examines applications in two disparate fields linked by the importance of valuing information: public health and space. Researchers in the health field have developed some of the most innovative methodologies for valuing information, used to help determine, for example, the value of diagnostics in informing patient treatment decisions. In the field of space, recent applications of value-of-information methods are critical for informing decisions on investment in satellites that collect data about air quality, fresh water supplies, climate and other natural and environmental resources affecting global health and quality of life.

Essays on firm heterogeneity and quality in international trade
Essays on firm heterogeneity and quality in international trade

Author: Eddy Bekkers

Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 905170903X

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The thesis is organized as follows. Chapter 2 contains a survey of the three most in‡fluential models on fi…rm heterogeneity and of the most important empirical work on firrm heterogeneity. The chapter starts with a brief review of the homogeneous productivity imperfect competition literature. Chapter 2 …finishes with a comparison of the three most in‡fluential models of fi…rm heterogeneity and the oligopoly model put forward in the thesis. Chapter 3 addresses exporting uncertainty under heterogeneous popularity. Chapter 4 contains the chapter on …firm heterogeneity under oligopoly. Chapter 5 constitutes the models on …firm heterogeneity and endogenous quality. Chapter 6 points out the within-sector specialization model. Chapter 7 addresses the effect of importer characteristics on unit values and the role of markups and quality to explain this effect. Chapter 8 concludes.

Essays in Economic Theory, Growth, and Labour Markets
Essays in Economic Theory, Growth, and Labour Markets

Author: George Bitros

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9781782543602

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The distinguished contributors in this volume provide a variety of essays, which are written in honor of Emmanuel Drandakis. These essays fall into four uniform areas of economics: economic growth, general equilibrium, labor economics and game theory and applications. The editors focus on a select set of issues that stand high on the agenda of academic research. They provide fresh insights and approaches to the analysis of these issues, and thus open up wider avenues for our understanding of the dilemmas posed for theory and policy. Readers are offered new empirical evidence on such thorny social problems as, for example, unemployment, the intergenerational transmission of human capital and the response of wages to price and endowment changes.

The Challenge of Planned Urbanisation
The Challenge of Planned Urbanisation

Author: Marco Bontje

Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9051705565

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Discusses the urbanisation and national urbanisatio policy in the Netherlands in a northwest-European perspective.