Strategic Inter-Regional Transfers

A regional medical operations center improves disaster response and inter-hospital trauma transfers.

BACKGROUND Delays in both inter-hospital trauma transfers and disaster response are common. We hypothesized patient flow could be improved by formal adoption of systems that improve cooperation and communication. METHODS The regional trauma database of the Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council for Trauma and the Regional Medical Operations Center (RMOC) database were queried to test the h...

Testing the Effects of Inter-Regional Transfers of Real Energy on the Performance of Electricity Markets

Since deregulation of the electric utility industry began in the USA, there has been a substantial increase in the quantity of power transferred over long distances. Both thermal and voltage constraints on transmission have been experienced in regions that previously were rarely congested. One solution to this type of problem is to expand the capacity of transmission networks, but it is likely ...

Bequests, Inter Vivos Transfers, and Wealth Distribution

This paper extends the heterogeneous agent overlapping generations model with bequests in Nishiyama (2000) by adding two-way intergenerational altruism and inter vivos transfers. Calibrating the model to the U.S. economy, the paper measures time preference and intergenerational altruism consistent with the economy¶s capital-output ratio and the sizes of intergenerational transfers. In the model...

Descent Rules and Inter Vivos Transfers

Fiscal Transfers and Regional Economic Growth

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, with periphery countries in the European Union even more falling behind the core countries economically, there have been quests for various kind of fiscal policies in order to revert divergence. How these policies would unfold and perform comparatively is largely unknown. We analyze four such stylized policies in an agent-based macroeconomic model and s...