Reallocating Australia’s Scarce Mental Health Resources

- 1 - Reallocating Mental Health Resources in the Borough of Lambeth , London , UK

This paper describes the application of system dynamics to assist decision making in the reallocation of resources within a specialist mental health trust in south London. Mental health service providers are under increasing pressure to both reduce their own costs and to move resources upstream in mental health patient pathways to facilitate treating more people, whilst not compromising service...

Translating with Scarce Resources

Current corpus-based machine translation techniques do not work very well when given scarce linguistic resources. To examine the gap between human and machine translators, we created an experiment in which human beings were asked to translate an unknown language into English on the sole basis of a very small bilingual text. Participants performed quite well, and debriefings revealed a number of...

Competition for Scarce Resources

We show that the efficient allocation of production capacity can turn a competitive industry and downstream market into an imperfectly competitive one. Even though downstream firms have symmetric production technologies, the downstream industry structure will be symmetric only if capacity is sufficiently scarce. Otherwise it will be asymmetric, with one large “fat” capacityhoarding firm and a f...

Competition for Scarce Resources∗

We show that the efficient allocation of production capacity can turn a competitive industry and downstream market into an imperfectly competitive one. Even though downstream firms have symmetric production technologies, the downstream industry structure will be symmetric only if capacity is sufficiently scarce. Otherwise it will be asymmetric, with one large “fat” capacity-hoarding firm and a ...

Managing Scarce Water Resources – China