Sentences with phrase «of model policies»

The guide covers the new Loan Estimate and Closing Disclosure in detail, outlines top issues with the rule and provides a set of model policies and procedures along with checklists for implementation and working with technology providers.

As a supplement to the magazine, practicePRO has added a number of model policies and articles to our Technology page.

Few of the model policies above explicitly refer to graded lessons — although Ofsted's Inspection Handbook has criteria against which the quality of teaching overall will be judged and the DfE gives an example of lesson quality as an absolute performance measure.

Guidance Materials: RCW 28A.210.360 (Senate Bill 5436, 2004) requires districts to adopt local wellness policies and mandated the creation of a model policy and recommendations consistent with and above the federal requirements by a broad - based advisory committee.

The philosophy of the model policy and program discourages an overreliance on discipline and instead adopts a public health approach focused on prevention, supporting at - risk youth and addressing incidents to change behavior.

Notification provided to school of low - risk sex offender expanded to include local superintendent of education, school is required to report to local law enforcement, state board of education is required to develop and local board of education to adopt of model policy for monitoring juvenile sex offenders in school.

The CCCT recommends the application of this Model Policy to court web sites, including the recommendation about preventing indexing and cache storage of judgments from web robots and search engines.

Not exact matches

While models that attempt to forecast potential economic impacts provide useful insights regarding potential risks when exploring policy choices, the Commission is of the view that it must also consider the potential upsides of greater choice, including the retention of subscribers in the system, as well as the risks associated with maintaining the status quo in a context of increased demand for more choice.

The situation is analogous to health care policy in the years before Obamacare, when, in the absence of a federal consensus, Massachusetts pioneered its own law aimed at reforming health insurance (which later became a model for the Affordable Care Act).

Most states have a version of a model law known as the Unfair Claims Settlement Practices Act, which sets standards for handling claims and prohibits policies that, for example, require you to sue to collect.

According to Bloomberg, Tim Leissner, once the chairman of Goldman's operation in Southeast Asia and husband of former U.S. model and designer Kimora Lee Simmons, resigned in January after bank investigators found he allegedly violated firm policies, but continued to work for the bank until Feb. 23, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Hansen's seminal work essentially updated an important theory of statistical modeling from the late 1800s, called the Method of Moments, allowing it to be used more accurately for things like setting monetary policy.

So, grudgingly, the health care reformers and progressive politicians behind Medicare built their program of government - funded health policies for the elderly around the insurance company model.

There's no one universal model for these policies, but they generally involve one of two things: a requirement that developers either make a certain percentage of their housing units available at below - market rates, or that has them pay a fee into a fund for affordable housing.

Emerging markets also account for over 50 % of world GDP, and have been responsible for the lion's share of global growth ever since the 2008 financial crisis, but capital has flooded out of them as the Federal Reserve has tightened its monetary policy and the limits of China's economic model have become apparent.

Patrik Marier of the Institute for Research in Public Policy, meanwhile, examined supplementary pension schemes around the world and found the most applicable model close to home in Saskatchewan.

I want to take the lessons of Stonyfield's positive economic business model to a larger audience, with the goal of influencing policy makers and business thinkers.

«They have this mindless policy of everything having to be simultaneously streamed and released, which is obviously an untenable model for theatrical presentation.

Instead of continuing to mine resources, fashion them into products, use the products and then throw them away (the «take - make - waste» model), individuals, companies and policy makers are increasingly looking to a less wasteful «make - use - return» model of doing business.

But when policy - makers studied the data, their models foretold a dark future from the collapse of oil prices.

This paper investigates the significance of the mix of monetary and fiscal policies for financial stability through counterfactual simulations of three key historical episodes, using the Bank's main policy model, ToTEM (Terms - of - Trade Economic Momodel, ToTEM (Terms - of - Trade Economic ModelModel).

Things were going swimmingly, except for two issues: The startup's flash - sales model meant it never had any consistent supply of inventory (making international shipping and fulfillment awfully tricky), and Fab's free shipping policy meant everything going outside of the U.S. was bound to cost a fortune and take forever.

Deloitte Access Economics offers a full suite of economic advisory services including economic forecasting, modelling, analysis and advisory services to help our clients plan for the future, understand the implications of major decisions, and navigate the complexities of economic policy.

As Western leaders, policy - makers, and journalists questioned whether their own systems had failed, Chinese leaders began to more explicitly promote their authoritarian capitalist model of development.

We also modelled a number of existing and proposed federal and provincial policies aimed at helping Canadians save energy.

As a legislative policy arm, WIPP identifies important trends and opportunities and provides a collaborative model for the public and private sectors to increase the economic power of women - owned businesses.

To measure the natural rate, I use a structural model described in Cúrdia et al. (2015) and incorporate the effects of forward guidance — monetary policy announcements about what path the interest rate is likely to follow.

Detailed distributional analysis from the Joint Committee on Taxation and the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center is still forthcoming, but Ernie Tedeschi, a private sector economist and veteran of the Obama Treasury Department, crunched some numbers using Tax Brain, an open source tax model from the right - leaning American Enterprise Institute's Open Source Policy Center.

Earlier in the fall, we commissioned economic modelling to look at the benefits of building on the best elements of today's provincial climate policies.

The relationship between monetary policy and financial stability may depend on the specific economic conditions in which we find ourselves.6 Moreover, the processes resulting in financial cycles, with periods of unsustainable debt buildup, occasional crises and periods of deleveraging, are not well captured by standard models.7 We have more work to do before we can be fully confident about our conclusions.

[01:30] Introduction [02:30] Tony welcomes Alexandra [03:40] Launching in 2007 — it came from a place of passion [04:25] Establishing clear roles among founders [05:40] Flexing her multilingual skills in business [06:25] Adjusting how you speak to someone based on their objectives [08:10] The secret to Gilt's growth [09:20] Building a business that would thrive during winter [10:20] Finding the capital to purchase inventory [10:40] Moving from venture to private equity funding [11:20] It's all about smart money [11:40] The future of traditional retail [12:20] The subscription model [12:40] Catering to the time - starved customer [12:55] Bringing services into the home [13:10] Leaving Gilt to lead Glamsquad [16:10] Glamsquad started as an app [17:10] Vetting employees [18:10] Building trust with customers [19:00] Taking massive action — now [20:20] Launching the first sale on Gilt — without a return policy [21:30] Fitz [22:00] The average person wears only 20 % of their wardrobe [23:00] Taking the time to understand your customer [23:20] Challenges as a woman in business [24:40] Advice to a female entrepreneur that's just getting started [25:25] The importance of networking [25:50] Knowing the milestones to hit along the way

Adaptability however is key to success and, since good governance requires the regular review of policies, ostensibly the OSC and other regulators would periodically assess the effectiveness of the «comply - or - explain» model, once adopted, to determine whether another approach is warranted.

Canada's image on the world stage has grown considerably in recent years and our actions in specific aspects of economic policy are considered by many non-Canadians to be a role model for other nations.

The models used by the Congressional Budget Office, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the US Treasury Department (unless it has just now been directed to do otherwise), and the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center all assign the vast majority of the burden of the corporate tax to shareholders or investors more generally, not to workers.

Despite attempts to move beyond the three cultures model, elements of it were still evident in the early development of Malaysia's immigration policy.

In the UK, the Bank of England also makes extensive use of a large - scale macro-model, and a significant portion of the policy formulation process is taken up with the discussion of the necessary judgmental adjustments to the equations of the model to reflect current developments.

Alan Greenspan was importantly right when he ignored models and maintained easy policy in the mid 1990s because of other more anecdotal evidence that convinced him that productivity growth had accelerated.

In part, this is because the large scale of the models diminishes the ability to observe the key macroeconomic relationships central to the policy decision.

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One form of this model was practiced beginning in the 1930s by the Soviet Union, which more or less invented it, although we also see similarities in German economic policies during the same period.

Roper and other consumer advocates argue that conflicted advice is deeply engrained in the brokerage business model, echoing the concerns outlined in a recent leaked White House policy memo in which officials concluded that «the current regulatory environment creates perverse incentives that ultimately cost investors billions of dollars a year» in the form of unnecessary rollovers of 401 (k) plans into costly IRAs, and «excessive churning (repeated buying and selling) of retirement assets.»

Dynamic modeling: Computer simulation of how tax policy or tax reform affects the economy taking into account how individuals, households, or firms alter their work, saving, investment, or consumption behavior, and how those effects feed back to affect tax revenues.

The monetary policy debate over whether rule - like behavior is preferable to pure discretion dates back at least to Henry Simons in 1936.1 More recently, in their Nobel Prize - winning work, Finn Kydland and Ed Prescott demonstrated that a credible commitment by policymakers to behave in a systematic rule - like manner leads to better outcomes than discretion.2 Since then, numerous papers using a variety of models have investigated the benefits of rule - like behavior in monetary policy and found that there are indeed significant benefits.

The model was a pact between Beijing and the economic ruling class of Hong Kong to maintain order, the rule of law, and to prevent the adoption of any anti-Beijing policies.

It is incorporated into the Federal Reserve's FRB / US model, one of several macro-economic models used by staff economists at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in monetary policy analysis.

«The main problem with entropy uncertainty models is that they are used to justify the notion that there's room to push agendas to the limit line of the outer edge of the envelope that supports the policy maker's cognitive bias,» opines Dennis Santiago, Senior Managing Director for Compliance and Analytics at Total Bank Solutions.

Interestingly, the Fed model has a larger assessment of the impact of monetary policy.

We separately considered both the BoC and Fed models for assessing the impact of changes in monetary policy.

Without going into the extensive limitations of such models or the longer - term implications for raising interest rates, we would just highlight that the impact of a 100 basis point move in policy rates in both central bank models are surprisingly similar in the short - term.

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