Sentences with phrase «policy analysis models»

This science is more than half a century old; it is in any textbook; the I.P.C.C. even as an «official» log forcing function that is widely used in simple policy analysis models.

There is no shortage of policy analysis models or approaches, and UNICEF has its fair share.

EQL doesn't give you answers to these problems, but, in my case, it equipped me with a knowledge of how to formulate the right questions through different policy analysis models, with constant reference to my leadership role: Am I a passive spectator in public policy formulation or do my voice and advocacy have greater reach than what I surmise?

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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.

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.

In fact, the mainstream theoretical models that we use for monetary and macroeconomic analysis are built on the notion that monetary policy is conducted in a rule - like manner.

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.

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He's still pretty conservative and in a recent analysis, I've applied the model from The Constrained Court to estimate the policy preferences of justices and how they would map onto the vote on the health care legislation (it's all based on a statistical model that links the Court and Congress via positions members of one institution take on votes in the other).

The Report Card offers a comprehensive state - by - state analysis of laws and policies that embrace new education models, utilize technology to make personalized learning a reality for all students, and eliminate the barriers to blended learning in K - 12 education.

David Osborne, senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, completed an analysis of D.C.'s two sectors, documenting how competition led the district sector to emulate charters in many ways, including more diverse curriculum offerings; new choices of different school models; and reconstituting schools to operate with building level autonomy, especially giving principals freedom to hire all or mostly new staff.

In February of 2011, CUNY's Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, headed by University Dean David Crook, released critical data (obtained by Director of Policy Analysis Colin Chellman using linear probability models and logistic regression) demonstrating that, all else being equal (i.e., taking into account all measurable demographic and performance characteristics), CUNY's transfer students were at a disadvantage in terms of graduation compared to native students.

In addition to writing and co-writing nearly 100 papers and book chapters, she has also co-written three books: By Design: Planning Better Research in Higher Education, and Who Will Teach: Policies that Matter (both published by Harvard University Press), and Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis: Modeling Change and Event Occurrence (Oxford University Press), which received honorable mention from the American Publishers Association for the best mathematics & statistics book of 2003.

Scholarship about the relationship between policy leadership and complex social change presents three main images.241 A technical policy perspective is found in most policy analysis texts; it is generally associated with rational choice models.242 Policy leaders should, according to this perspective, focus on rational choices to be made once a policy issue is on the apolicy leadership and complex social change presents three main images.241 A technical policy perspective is found in most policy analysis texts; it is generally associated with rational choice models.242 Policy leaders should, according to this perspective, focus on rational choices to be made once a policy issue is on the apolicy perspective is found in most policy analysis texts; it is generally associated with rational choice models.242 Policy leaders should, according to this perspective, focus on rational choices to be made once a policy issue is on the apolicy analysis texts; it is generally associated with rational choice models.242 Policy leaders should, according to this perspective, focus on rational choices to be made once a policy issue is on the aPolicy leaders should, according to this perspective, focus on rational choices to be made once a policy issue is on the apolicy issue is on the agenda.

A Principal at Meketa Investment Group, his consulting work includes investment policy design, asset allocation modeling, public markets manager due diligence, and fund performance analysis, among others.

Policy Study Associates (PSA) Analysis of the Impacts of City Year's Whole School Whole Child Model on Partner Schools» Performance A third - party study by Policy Studies Associates (PSA) examined the impact of City Year's service model, Whole School Whole Child, on City Year's partner schools» performance in comparison to similar schools without City Model on Partner Schools» Performance A third - party study by Policy Studies Associates (PSA) examined the impact of City Year's service model, Whole School Whole Child, on City Year's partner schools» performance in comparison to similar schools without City model, Whole School Whole Child, on City Year's partner schools» performance in comparison to similar schools without City Year.

An analysis of these models by the Public Policy Institute of California found that they reduced transparency, accountability and local control.

Building on the research and analysis in Missed Opportunities, CLASP conducted extensive Web - based research to identify promising models, review local policies and documents, and find local policymakers to interview.

LEAP is a software tool for energy policy analysis and climate change mitigation assessment that uses integrated modeling to track energy consumption, production, and resource extraction in all sectors of an economy.

So I incorporate as many tools as possible in my analysis, including: Fundamental valuations, macroeconomic models, monetary and fiscal policies, interest rate developments, sentiment and momentum indicators, and chart analysis.

The forecast of the order time delay data of CSI 300 index and the comparative analysis of the SVR model, GA - SVR and the WD - GA - SVR model predictions indicate that the WD - GA - SVR model significantly improve the robustness of the prediction model and forecast accuracy, can provide a reference for policy makers and investors.

In response, Armstrong et al. (Interfaces, 38 (5): 382 - 405, 2008) questioned the General Circulation Models (GCMs) upon which U.S.G.S. analyses relied; challenged the independence of U.S.G.S. from the policy process; and criticized the methods used by the U.S.G.S. to project the future status of polar bears.

Synapse performs operational and planning modeling analyses of electric power systems using industry - standard models such as Strategist, EnCompass, Market Analytics, PROMOD, and PLEXOS to evaluate long - term energy plans, assess the environmental and economic impacts of policy initiatives, and review utility system modeling.

To find out, the researchers plugged better cost information and more aggressive cost - curve assumptions into REMIND, a «global inter-temporally optimizing energy — economy model that has been extensively used for analyses of climate policies.»

But perhaps the biggest need is for a better policy modeling framework that employs a broader systems analysis, incorporates explicitly uncertainty and yields a clear path to a flexible, robust and economical outcome.

Such impacts are consolidated into integrated assessment models to calculate the social cost of carbon and perform global cost - benefit analyses for climate policy.

It then provides an analysis of the knowledge gaps and needs of the continent for various themes, including policy, communication, technology and climate change modelling.

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Mario has experience in energy and emissions modeling and in climate and energy policy analysis in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and the U.S. Previously, he worked at non-profit organizations and think - tanks on initiatives in biodiversity conservation in LAC, iNDC analysis, energy efficiency in buildings, and post-Maria grid restructuring efforts in Puerto Rico.

These include efforts to retract the Clean Power Plan, to eliminate the use of the social cost of carbon as currently constituted in federal cost / benefit analyses, and acknowledgement the current generation of climate models has no utility with regard to policy.

Results of climate policy analysis under deep uncertainty with imprecise probabilities (Kriegler, 2005; Kriegler et al. 2006) are consistent with the previous findings using classical models.

His expertise is in the economic modeling and analysis of energy systems, with experience in both broad - scale energy policy analysis and in detailed financial analysis of private - sector electric power generation assets.

Dr. Marcia Rocha, Head of Climate Policy Team Policy Analysis Team leader, research scientist specialised in advanced data analysis and modelling; works on equity, and analyses emissions reduction targets and their impact on global temperatuAnalysis Team leader, research scientist specialised in advanced data analysis and modelling; works on equity, and analyses emissions reduction targets and their impact on global temperatuanalysis and modelling; works on equity, and analyses emissions reduction targets and their impact on global temperature rise.

Dr. Uğur Ural, Data Scientist Scientist with expertise in advanced data analysis and modelling, calculates the global emissions and temperatures for the Climate Action Tracker, supports the Climate Policy Team for programming and analysis tasks.

Fabio Sferra, Climate Policy Analyst Contributing his expertise in the field of integrated assessment modelling and mitigation policies for the Climate Action Tracker project and supporting analysis of country positions for SIDS and LDCs.

He is an expert on regional modeling and applying it to policy analysis, economic impact analysis, and energy modeling.

, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna University of Technology; «assessment of climate and energy policies and the development and application of integrated assessment models».

In a paper last year, Professor Robert Pindyck from the Massachusetts Institute Technology concluded the so - called integrated assessment models used to combine climate science with economics have «crucial flaws that make them close to useless as tools for policy analysis».

In order to underpin scenario analysis of the World Energy Outlook, an extensive effort is made to update and expand the list of energy and climate - related policies and measures that feed into our modelling.

Zhang, Z.X. (1998), Macroeconomic Effects of CO2 Emission Limits: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis for China, Journal of Policy Modeling, Vol.

Better estimates of the benefits and costs of harmonizing energy policy across North America require several foundational research efforts — such as creating an inventory of cross-border analyses and a North American energy market and policy model.

A 2007 analysis by Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions (based on a U.S. Energy Information Administration model) found that the Lieberman - Warner Climate Security Act (S. 3036) would reduce U.S. GDP growth by less than 0.45 percent by 2015 and only 1.5 percent by 2050.

Greenblatt's new model, dubbed CALGAPS (California LBNL GHG Analysis of Policies Spreadsheet), indicates that GHG emissions through 2020 could range from 317 to 415 MtCO2e / year, all still below the AB 32 target, «indicating that existing state policies will likely allow California to meet its target,» Policies Spreadsheet), indicates that GHG emissions through 2020 could range from 317 to 415 MtCO2e / year, all still below the AB 32 target, «indicating that existing state policies will likely allow California to meet its target,» policies will likely allow California to meet its target,» he said.

We developed the 2013 forecast based on thorough analysis of proposed federal regulatory measures, ongoing state and regional policies limiting CO2, the price of CO2 already being factored into federal rulemakings, recent CO2 forecasts from 28 utilities, and policy analysis and modeling from the research community.

We can then sort out the models by putting (say) all but the top five or so into a «failed» bin and stop including them in any sort of analysis or policy decisioning whatsoever unless or until they start to actually agree with reality.

Insurers need to: collect more complete data on weather - related losses; incorporate climate modeling into their risk analyses; analyze the implications of climate change on their business and investments and share the results with shareholders; and encourage policy action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Using models to inform policy analysis.

Our analysis of the three major models used to set government policies in the United States and Europe suggests that ethanol policies in effect are relying on decreases in food consumption to generate GHG savings (1).

Synapse also routinely performs operational and planning modeling analyses of electric power systems using industry - standard models such as Strategist, Market Analytics, PROMOD, and PLEXOS, and applies economic models such as REMI and IMPLAN to estimate impacts of electric sector policies and investments on employment, gross domestic or state product, and other metrics.

This technical document highlights how spatial analysis and land - use modelling can help in understanding the potential impacts on biodiversity, ecosystems services of policy options for achieving REDD + objectives.