Author : Peter Midmore
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 32,53 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This work takes a particular methodology for economic modelling, the input-output approach, and applies it to a range of rural economic problems. It combines case studies with more theoretical discussions.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,28 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Rural development
ISBN :
Author : Glyn Wittwer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 25,58 MB
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9811361010
This book deals with the economic modelling of water at the global, national and sub-national levels. It presents a multi-faceted analysis and, while it outlines the theories behind various models, its main purpose is to analyse policy issues and present insights arising from modelling, including a chapter analysing the macroeconomic implications of climate change. Arguably the most compelling reason for publishing a book on the economic modelling of water arises from the fact that agriculture accounts for approximately 70% of water used for economic purposes, while only contributing 4% of global income. Given that water is an essential commodity, this discrepancy may in part be symptomatic of an undervaluation of water due to immature and incomplete markets. In turn, this undervaluation has led to an ongoing misallocation of water. When economic models include water accounts that feed into production functions, they model impacts on the marginal product of water. Policies that improve the link between the marginal product and price of water will improve water allocation, while advanced economic models such as those presented here can enhance our ability to explore the possible impacts of improved policy.
Author : G.I. Treyz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9401728747
Regional economic models are the key to predicting the effects of transportation, economic development, energy, fiscal and environmental policies. Despite this, the principal regional economic policy analysis model used throughout the United States by government agencies, universities, and the private sector has not been presented in a book until now. The approach to building, understanding and using regional models presented in Regional Economic Models: A Systematic Approach to Forecasting and Policy Analysis is progressive. It begins with the simplest possible models and concludes with a full presentation of the leading model used by policy makers today. The full details are presented along with facilitating software, which is made available so that the reader can build a prototype model for any state or country and can perform policy simulations with full operational models for a sample area. Policy studies are discussed that have been carried out with the model, as well as the range of ways in which policies can be tested through policy simulations. The necessary background is developed for understanding the ways in which models can be used to improve the basis upon which policies are evaluated, as well as the sensitivity of the predicted effects to the model chosen for the analysis. The presentation is multifaceted and includes equations, diagrams and numerical examples. The professional literature is integrated with introductory materials to produce the first comprehensive book on regional modeling that extends from economic base models to modeling advances that are currently being published in economic journals.
Author : Thomas Rowley
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 23,95 MB
Release : 1996-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Currently, the research community lacks the capacity to provide accurate, up-to-date information about conditions and trends in rural areas. Bringing together some of the best known rural development researchers, this volume begins to build an information base that can serve as a foundation for rural development policy. It deals with four components of development—education, entrepreneurship, physical infrastructure, and social infrastructure. The opening chapters address two aspects of each component—the use of the component to achieve rural development and measuring the impact of its use. The volume then applies specific analytic methods of measuring impact to each component. The opening chapters address two aspects of each component—the concept of using that component to achieve rural development and the concept of measuring its impact. The volume then examines analytic methods of measuring impact. Following an overview of analytic methods, chapters apply a different analytic technique to each of the components. The techniques considered include econometric models, computable general equilibrium models, input-output analysis, and the case-study method.
Author : Alex Anas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136460853
This title provides a comprehensive, critical coverage of the progress and development of mathematical modelling within urban and regional economics over four decades.
Author : Karla Hoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 30,50 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
A key to understanding why some rural development policies succeed and some fail is found in this book. The editors contend that established economic models are inadequate to interpret the behavior of rural markets and nonmarket institutions. This book investigates economic institutions and contractual arrangements in credit, labor, and land markets and analyzes their implications for the behavior of the rural sector. Drawing on 15 short case studies, five overview and nine theoretical chapters explore some of the most pressing problems facing developing countries: how to promote financial integration of the rural sector, how to rationalize the use of land and water, and how to design and administer tax and transfer policies. The book contributes to theory, empirical methodology, and the solution of concrete policy questions.
Author : J. Edward Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 1996-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521550123
This book presents a generation of village-wide modelling designed to capture the interactions among households that shape impacts on rural economies.
Author : Richard S. Conway Jr.
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 2022-04-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3030766462
This textbook offers an introduction to empirical regional economics, including a comprehensive and systematic overview of the fundamentals, history, development, and applications of economic base models. It not only provides a sound basis for regional economics and regional economic analysis, but it also includes numerous applications of the underlying theory. The book has an empirical orientation, highlighting the value of observation and testing in order to explain regional economic behavior. Theory plays an important role in this study, but it is only a starting point. The book is divided into three parts: the first discusses the economic base theory of regional growth and the empirical evidence supporting it, while the second part covers the specification and application of four increasingly complex regional economic models: the economic base model, the input-output model, the interindustry econometric model, and the structural time-series model. Lastly, the third part presents forty-eight regional economic case studies organized under seven headings, including economic cycles, economic policy, and regional forecasting. Given its scope, the book appeals to upper-undergraduate and graduate students majoring in economics, economic geography, and business, as well as to anyone in the private or public sector interested in gaining a better understanding of practical methods of regional economic forecasting and analysis. For additional course material, please check the author's website: https://www.empiricalregionaleconomics.com/
Author : Guillermo Flichman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 28,77 MB
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9400719027
This book has the purpose of providing the "state of the arts" concerning bio-economic modelling dealing with agricultural systems. In most cases, the contributions use a methodology combining the use of biophysical and economic models, in all cases, an engineering production function approach is totally or partially applied. This practice is being developed in the last years as a response to concrete policy matters: agricultural policies are increasingly combined with environmental and natural resources policies, and this reality involves the need of an integrated assessment, that current economic models are not able to provide.
