INTRODUCTION We simulate and analyze Total Health Expenditure (THE) in financial sources and other economic indicators (such as THE per capita, GDP, etc.) in a province of China from 2002 to 2012 on System Dynamics. METHODS Based on actual data and certain mathematical methods, we use system dynamic software to construct a logic model for THE and changing proportions, and thus simulate the ac...

This paper develops and estimates a statistical model of foreign investment flows in Canada in order to determine the degree to which Canadian foreign direct investment (FDI) policies affected these flows. Theoretical considerations suggest that host government policies directed at inward foreign investment (FDI) also influence outward direct investment (ODI), especially investment by affiliate...

Real option analysis has been studied and applied in evaluating information technology (IT) investments for more than a decade. Its advantages over the traditional discounted cash flow techniques have been widely recognized in the information systems (IS) community. However real option analysis has yet to be seen in valuing digital government projects where the real option analysis and option t...

Making a business case for GIS in local government is a complex task for two main reasons: first, a GIS implementation can range from a single, well-defined application in one department to a corporate multi-purpose GIS; and, second, local authorities are complex organisations currently facing major pressures for change considerable uncertainty about their future structure and role. The purpose...

Investment in human capital accumulation, government consumption and total government expenditures present a striking negative correlation with capital shares. This correlation is robust to alternative speci...cations, lists of controls, and exclusion of outliers. Causality tests strongly support the hypothesis that the direction of causation runs from capital shares to the government spending ...

Investment in human capital accumulation, government consumption and total government expenditures present a striking negative correlation with capital shares. This correlation is robust to alternative speci...cations, lists of controls, and exclusion of outliers. Causality tests strongly support the hypothesis that the direction of causation runs from capital shares to the government spending ...

Although vast normative e-government literature supports the assertion that implementation of e-government reduces transaction cost and promotes Foreign Direct Investment; empirical evidence to support this thesis is limited. Even more, there is limited attempt when studying this phenomenon to integrate e-government literature with other literatures in which major constructs of interest are roo...

We analyze decisions made by a group of terrorists and a target government in a zero-sum game in which the terrorists minimize, and the government maximizes, the expected utility of the median voter in the target country. The terrorists’ strategy balances the probability and the severity of the attack while the government chooses the level of investment reducing the probability and/or mitigatin...