European Agency Leader Urges Long-Term Environmental Policy

Impact of Long-term Debt on Overinvestment Problem of Agency

Business units are always faced with investment opportunities and need to make logical decisions on an optimal investment. Indeed, the investment of each business unit should be done with regard to the resource constraints and its effectiveness through the criteria for evaluating the projects including the net present value (NPV). The paper aims to investigate the effect of long-term debt on th...

Methods for Long - Term Environmental Policy Challenges

How do we study long-term policy challenges where the outcomes are difacult to anticipate far into the future? After a brief overview of the broad classes of methods used to inform long-term policy decisions, this article will review in more depth three analytic methods—statistical methods, robust decisionmaking, and adaptive agent-based models—that provide innovative examples. The article cons...

European Space Agency

1 The CMOD4 model 1.1: The scatterometer................................................................1 1.2: The CMOD4 model..............................................................4 2 The tropical cyclone.................................................................19 3 Experiments 3.1: Premise............................................................................23 3.2: Theoret...

European Environment Agency

Sustainability of Long-term Care: Puzzling Tasks Ahead for Policy-Makers

Background The sustainability of long-term care (LTC) is a prominent policy priority in many Western countries. LTC is one of the most pressing fiscal issues for the growing population of elderly people in the European Union (EU) Member States. Country recommendations regarding LTC are prominent under the EU’s European Semester.   Methods This paper examines challenges related to the financial-...