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Index Policies for Shooting Problems
Operations Research, 2007We consider a scenario in which a single Red wishes to shoot at a collection of Blue targets, one at a time, to maximise some measure of return obtained from Blues killed before Red’s own (possible) demise. Such a situation arises in various military contexts, such as the conduct of air defence by Red in the face of Blue SEAD (suppression of enemy air ...
Kevin D. Glazebrook +4 more
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The Balance Point: Indexing Policies
Serials Review, 1992In this column, indexing and abstracting company representatives discuss several aspects of indexing policy and database selection. Authors were asked to describe the selection of titles and the content of the database and how the database is revised and updated. They also discuss how the subject is defined, how balance, quality, and appropriateness of
Mary Elizabeth Clack +5 more
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Index policies for the routing of background jobs
Naval Research Logistics (NRL), 2004AbstractArriving (generic) jobs may be processed at one of several service stations, but only when no other (dedicated) jobs are waiting there. We consider the problem of how to route these incoming background jobs to make best use of the spare service capacity available at the stations.
Glazebrook, K D, Kirkbride, C
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A pilot index for environmental policy in The Netherlands
Energy Policy, 1998A pilot environmental index for the Netherlands shows a downward trend of environmental pressure in the last decade. The index measures environmental pressure from the policy perspective and the observed downward trend does not imply that environmental quality has increased.
den Butter, F.A.G. +1 more
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A Note on the “Economic Policy Uncertainty Index”
Social Indicators Research, 2017This paper builds upon the renowned media reports-based "Economic policy uncertainty" (EPU) index and analyzes its Granger-causal interrelationships with consumer confidence and aggregate economic activity. Employing a heterogeneous panel Granger causality test on data from 13 world countries, the authors find that: i) the analyzed countries are quite ...
Škrabić Perić, Blanka, Sorić, Petar
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Optimal myopic policies and index policies for stochastic scheduling problems
ZOR - Methods and Models of Operations Research, 1993Summary: Stochastic scheduling problems are considered by using discounted dynamic programming. Both, maximizing pure rewards and minimizing linear holding costs are treated in one common Markov decision problem. A sufficient condition for the optimality of the myopic policy for finite and infinite horizon is given.
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ISLANDS, INDEXATION AND MONETARY POLICY
Economic Inquiry, 1989This paper develops a synthesized macroeconomic model that incorporates the local‐global informational asymmetries of an “islands” economy into a setting characterized by endogenous wage indexation. In such an economy, agents are unable both to filter out the separate influences of demand and supply shocks on observed output prices and to distinguish ...
DAVID D. Vanhoose, CHRISTOPHER J. Waller
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Economic Policy Uncertainty: An Index for Malta
SSRN Electronic JournalWe construct an Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) index for Malta based on the methodology of Baker, Bloom and Davis (2015) using articles published between 2004 and 2022 from four Maltese news portals. The index spikes during general elections and other significant local or international events.
Sant, Kurt, Spiteri, Sarah
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2019
Organizational life is subject to both public policies, such as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act and private policies. The enactment of various policies in organizational settings can often be challenging for organizational members to understand because of the complex nature of such policies.
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Organizational life is subject to both public policies, such as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act and private policies. The enactment of various policies in organizational settings can often be challenging for organizational members to understand because of the complex nature of such policies.
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Investment Policy and Index Numbers
Journal of the Institute of Actuaries, 1954We have chosen Investment Policy and Index Numbers as the title of this paper, because the origin of the Actuaries' Investment Index is to be found in a paper, The Statistical Groundwork of Investment Policy, by the late C.M. Douglas (T.F.A. 12, 173).The main policy consideration discussed by Douglas was the extent to which offices should invest in ...
H. W. Haycocks, J. Plymen
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