We estimate a behavioral New Keynesian (NK) model in which households and firms plan over finite horizon. The finite-horizon planning (FHP) outperforms rational expectations versions of the NK as well other models. In FHP model, are forward-looking thinking about events their horizon but backward-looking regarding beyond that point. This gives rise to substantial aggregate persistence without r...

Last year we commissioned a strategic review of Health Policy and Planning (HPP) to better position our journal in an increasingly complex publishing landscape and enhance its relevance and impact. As part of this review, we surveyed our readers, authors and editorial board. We also compared HPP against 13 competitors with respect to (1) performance indicators, (2) submission number and accepta...

Since the publication of the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP), a growing body of literature has emerged related to European spatial planning. Much of this literature is focused on the influence of the ESDP on city regions and urban policy in individual member states. Much less attention has been paid thus far to the influence of the ESDP on the formulation of spatial strategies a...

Probabilistic temporal planning attempts to find good policies for acting in domains with concurrent durative tasks, multiple uncertain outcomes, and limited resources. These domains are typically modelled as Markov decision problems and solved using dynamic programming methods. This paper demonstrates the application of reinforcement learning — in the form of a policy-gradient method — to thes...

We propose a motion planning algorithm for performing policy search in the full pose and velocity space of a mobile robot. By comparison, existing techniques optimize high-level plans, but fail to optimize the low-level motion controls. We use policy search in a high dimensional control space to find plans that lead to measurably better motion planning. Our experimental results suggest that our...

In addition to its conventional meaning of “preparing for future situations”, energy planning addresses policy making, in particular in situations where self-regulating markets are perceived as inadequate for reaching given policy goals. A general example for such a situation is given by the presence of non-monetary externalities, that is, costs or benefits that are not included in market inter...