The Fiscal Responsibility Laws FRL being implemented around the world inevitably involve a tradeoff between fiscal discipline and flexibility. Accurate, unbiased revenue forecasts mitigate this tradeoff by helping policymakers facing stricter anti-deficit laws avoid emergency cuts and helping to realistically assess feasibility of expenditure commitments in countries with more flexible...
This paper presents proven approaches for establishing and aligning Business, Product, and Technology strategies, enabling an organization to ensure that downstream tradeoffs are made in the context of business goals and objectives. These approaches provide the ability to communicate and monitor the critical success attributes throughout the product-development process. In...
This article characterizes and measures a long-run risk return tradeoff for the valuation of financial cash flows that are exposed to fluctuations in macroeconomic growth. This tradeoff features components of financial cash flows that are only realized far into the future but are still reflected in current asset values. It...
Recent research in empirical finance has documented that expected excess returns on bonds and stocks, real interest rates, and risk shift over time in predictable ways. Furthermore, these shifts tend to persist over long periods of time. This paper proposes an empirical model that is able to capture these complex...
Supply chain management involves understanding complex interactions between many factors and using the understanding to achieve balance between conflicting objectives. Simulation is a very useful technique to evaluate the impact of changes in factors such as inventory control and business process parameters. This paper describes a simulation based study for...
Simulation is well suited to the development and analysis of supply chain models, since the problems of interest tend to be complex and encompass uncertainty. However, there are typically multiple performance objectives that tend to conflict. A major problem in supply chain studies is that assumptions need to be made...
This paper uses a simple two-period model to study how firms make layoff decisions in the presence of adverse shocks. It analyzes how the amount and sequencing of downsizing are determined when workers' expectations about their job security affects their on-the-job performance. The paper finds a fundamental tradeoff between laying...
Policymakers' efforts to boost trend output growth may be hampered by the presence of a tradeoff between productivity gains and job creation. This paper presents empirical evidence that the negative relationship between productivity growth and employment growth that prevailed in the 1960s and 1970s has disappeared since then. This finding...
An important challenge in designing policy initiatives to address the problem of uninsured children is that the objectives implicit in the programs can conflict. These conflicts necessitate prioritizing multiple objectives and identifying acceptable tradeoffs in order to achieve effective policy design that reflects the nation's social priorities. This article provides...
This article focuses on online selling and live selling which is one of the effective selling channels. A seller choosing between auctioning online and live faces a tradeoff: lower transaction costs online against more rents left with the bidders. This article models this tradeoff, and apply the theory to auctions...
From the executive summary: 'The term 'total compensation tradeoff" describes the phenomenon of one type of compensation like benefits replacing another like wages. For employers, such trade-offs are very clear as a certain amount of money is generally available for wages and benefits, and a disproportionate increase in one budget...
From the executive summary: ‘Financing decisions seem to violate central predictions of the tradeoff and pecking order models. Contradicting the paucity of outside equity decisions predicted by the pecking order, most firms issue or retire equity each year. The tradeoff model’s main problem is that more profitable firms have less...
McALLEN, Texas -- The U.S.-Mexico border fence will make life harder on some South Texas farmers, damage valuable wildlife habitat, impair views and generally become an obstacle to border life, the Department of Homeland Security acknowledged in an environmental study of the fence's impact. For the people...
Gordon Brown said he was disappointed with 33 of his own ministers, including Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, for voting to continue with the "John Lewis List" of MPs' allowances for furnishing their second homes. But Mr Brown was criticised for a lack of leadership by David...
APC, a global leader in integratedcritical power and cooling services, today announced the debut of APCTradeOff ToolsTM, new Web-based applications with easy-to-use interfacesdesigned for use in the early stages of data center concept and designdevelopment. By enabling data center professionals to experiment withvarious scenarios regarding virtualization, efficiency, power sizing,capital...
WHAT: GuardianEdge customer Chris Paidhrin of Southwest Washington MedicalCenter will speak at the upcoming Burton Group Catalyst Conference aboutcompliance and best practices in health care IT. Paidhrin's session, "ITSecurity in Health Care: Compliance and Data Security Architecture," willadvise attendees how to manage multi-staged IT security solutiondeployments, examine how a full-spectrum...
NEWSWEEK’s Business Roundtable experts assess the damage—and offer solutions. The big risk to the future is political, not economic Larry Lindsey, former governor of the Federal Reserve and former economic adviser to President George W. Bush The American economy has been...
Buildings in the Pearl District may get taller, due to a Portland Planning Commission recommendation that will scrap height limitations in some parts of the Pearl District in favor of a system that regulates heights based on buildings' floor areas. The commission will present its recommendation to...
How Would You Spend $30 Billion? OAKLAND, Calif., June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Can you spend $30 billion in 10 minutes? That's about how long it will take to complete a new online survey designed to help regional planners and members of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission MTC make...
Visit Laflin at DAC in Booths #766 and #770 PORTLAND, Ore. -- EDA and IP product sales and marketing firm, Laflin Limited, announced today that it has updated its portfolio to include Instigate Design's Proximus product. Continuing the company's charter of delivering foreign technology in the...
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