News tagged with economic models

The Earth has its own set of rules

Early in our history it didn't make any difference how we viewed our environment. We could change it, and if we didn't like what we did to it, we could move and natural processes would soon obliterate whatever we had done. ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 03, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (25) | comments 36

Financial instruments could be spiked with unfindable risks

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a result that may have implications for financial regulation, researchers from computer science and economics have revealed potentially impenetrable problems with the pricing of financial ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (20) | comments 42

Low incomes make poor more conservative, study finds

You might think that in a time when more money is concentrated in fewer hands and incomes vary wildly from billions to subsistence, poor people might increase their support for government policies that offer some help.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 16, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (23) | comments 486 | with audio podcast

Sea levels will continue to rise for 500 years: study

Rising sea levels in the coming centuries is perhaps one of the most catastrophic consequences of rising temperatures. Massive economic costs, social consequences and forced migrations could result from global ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 9

The inevitable rise of China - hype or reality?

A cover article in the latest edition of Foreign Affairs by the University of Sydney's Dr. Salvatore Babones outlines why predictions by economists that China will continue to experience rapid growth throu ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 35

Night sky satellite luminescence images used to estimate economic levels

(PhysOrg.com) -- Applying statistical analysis to a truly inspirational idea, economic researchers Xi Chen and William D. Nordhaus used nighttime satellite images taken by the U.S. Department of Defense over ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 17, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Mind over market: Economist confirms role of psychology in U.S. business cycle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Public attitude may be as important as public policy when it comes to the economy, according to UC Irvine’s Fabio Milani. A new economic model developed by the assistant professor of economics ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jun 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chance favors the concentration of wealth, study shows

Most of our society's wealth is invested in businesses or other ventures that may or may not pan out. Thus, chance plays a role in where the wealth of a society will end up.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 58 | with audio podcast

Study ties climate uncertainties to economies of US states

A climate-change study at Sandia National Laboratories that models the near-term effects of declining rainfall in each of the 48 U.S. continental states makes clear the economic toll that could occur unless an appropriate ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 6

Targeted investments in climate science could present enormous economic savings across the globe

Targeted investments in climate science could lead to major benefits in reducing the costs of adapting to a changing climate, according to new research published by scientists from the UK's National Centre for Atmospheric ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (8) | comments 2

No crystal ball necessary: New tool IDs predictable economic variables

You don't need a crystal ball to tell you what is going to happen next in the economy. You need a statistical model. A new method from North Carolina State University can help researchers determine which economic variables ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 4

A mathematical model determines which nations are more stable and which are more likely to break up

Thanks to a new model created by an international research group, it is now possible to predict which European countries are more likely to become united or which are more likely to break up. It does so by ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 9

Why or 'wine-not' let New York groceries sell wine?

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell researcher has developed simulation models to predict the economic implications of selling wine in New York grocery stores. With a new law, the state could reap about $22 million a year.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers study costs of 'dirty bomb' attack in L.A.

A dirty bomb attack centered on downtown Los Angeles' financial district could severely impact the region's economy to the tune of nearly $16 billion, fueled primarily by psychological effects that could persist for a decade.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Heart of Canada's asbestos country reinvents itself

It's an unlikely match, but a green chemistry institute is thriving in the old headquarters of a Canadian mine in a sign that the former world capital of asbestos is diversifying.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4