Howard Reed, director of Landman Economics, is a specialist in microsimulation models of the tax system and other economic phenomena and formerly chief economist at the Institute of Public Policy Research (ippr). (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
The investigators then used a Markov microsimulation model to estimate each policy's impact on diet or physical activity, and then Body Mass Index (BMI), in a simulated school - aged population in 2032, or 20 years after implementation. (sciencedaily.com)
But it is possible to slow the pace of urban sprawl by harnessing the full development potential of central areas, according to forecasts by Guillaume Marois, a recent Ph.D. from INRS who has developed a spatial microsimulation model called Local Demographic Simulations (LDS). (sciencedaily.com)