Putting a Dollar Value on Human Assets

Financial regulation and australian Dollar Liquid assets

Liquid assets play an important role in the financial system. They are generally defined as financial assets, such as cash and government securities, that can be readily used to fund payments, even in stressed market conditions. These assets are central to liquidity and credit risk management in financial markets. They are commonly used as collateral to obtain short-term funding and manage coun...

Putting a Value on Comparable Data

Machine translation began in 1947 with an influential memo by Warren Weaver. In that memo, Weaver noted that human code-breakers could transform ciphers into natural language (e.g., into Turkish)  without access to parallel ciphertext/plaintext data, and  without knowing the plaintext language’s syntax and semantics. Simple wordand letter-statistics seemed to be enough for the task. Weaver th...

Putting a value on environmental services , quality

quality are not bought and sold in traditional markets. A simple price variable, for example, representing the costs of reducing runoff does not exist. Instead, economists have developed the notion of “shadow prices” that can be estimated from production and environmental data that give either the value of a non-marketable “good,” such as a unit of indigenous nitrogen in the soil, or the abatem...

The dollar value of human life losses associated with COVID-19 in Canada

Background:  The objective of the study was to appraise the total dollar value of human life losses (TDVHL) associated with COVID-19 in Canada. Methods: The net output approach (also known as human capital approach) was applied in the dollar valuation of the 6,062 human life losses associated with COVID-19 in Canada as of 23 May 2020. The economic model was rerun five times: (a) using the nati...

Putting a human face on neurologic illness.