The changing economic environment

Monetary Policy in a Changing Economic Environment

Three years ago at this same conference, I was given an opportunity to talk about Japan’s monetary policy in the years when asset price bubbles expanded.1 Today, I would like mainly to review monetary policy in the following phase when the bubbles burst, for an asset price swing is the “changing economic environment” most relevant to us. Incidentally, we are now in the third phase when the econ...

The Changing Information Environment

The Changing Private Practice Environment:

The physician private practice arena has evolved from the days of the single family practitioner delivering house calls to one where options such as an affiliation of independent practitioners to purchase supplies or the integration of multi-specialty medical groups and hospitals into regional health systems are available. The transition to these sophisticated systems for the delivery of medica...

Contraceptive use in a changing service environment: evidence from Indonesia during the economic crisis.

In the late 1990s, most Southeast Asian countries experienced substantial economic downturns that reduced social-sector spending and decreased individuals' spending power. Data from Indonesia were collected in 1997 (just before the crisis) and in 1998 (during the crisis) that are used in this study to examine changes in the contraceptive supply environment and in women's choices regarding contr...

New competitive strategies for the practice of radiology in a changing economic environment.

Traditional strategic planning in managing American businesses recently has been called into question by a number of authors [1 ]. Strategic planning worked well through the 1940s, 1 950s, and 1 960s, but since the mid-i 970s corporations relying heavily on strategic planning often have fallen short of their goals and lagged behind competitors that emphasize strategic planning less [1 ]. Strate...