Abstract I analyze a general setting where policymaker needs information that financial market traders have in order to implement optimal policy, and prices can potentially reveal this information. Policy decisions, turn, affect asset values. derive condition for the existence of fully revealing equilibria competitive markets, which identifies all situations learning from policy purposes works....

Selecting concepts involves challenging decisions because decision-makers must consider many factors and the implications of the selection are far-reaching and unknown. As markets become increasingly sustainability-driven, bringing sustainability considerations into the decision is necessary. This is challenging due to the complexity of the concept of sustainability and it being unfamiliar to m...

OBJECTIVES Despite the growing number of pharmacoeconomic (PE)/health economic (HE) studies, very little is known about their use by decision makers. The objectives of the Task Force were to ensure that the good research practices of PE/HE studies pay attention to the needs of health-care decision makers and to develop a "toolbox" for the health-care decision maker wanting to interpret and use ...

Wide variation in private insurer payment rates to hospitals and physicians across and within local markets suggests that some providers, particularly hospitals, have significant market power to negotiate higher-than-competitive prices, according to a new study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC). Looking across eight health care markets--Cleveland; Indianapolis; Los Angeles; ...

Study of Dynamic Decision Making (DDM) has been devoted to understanding the behaviors of decision makers facing dynamic decision making tasks. DDM involves decision tasks embedded in complex systems, the structure of which is not fully known to the decision makers. Previous DDM research mainly took an experimental approach, attempting to explain how people make dynamic decisions and how to imp...

This chapter deals with an annotation-based decisional system. The decisional system we present is based on multidimensional databases, which are composed of facts and dimensions. The expertise of decision-makers is modelled, shared and stored through annotations. These annotations allow decision-makers to carry on active analysis and to collaborate with other decision-makers on a common analysis.

Introduction In 2008, the Global Health Research Initiative (GHRI) invited applications from teams of researchers and decision-makers who were interested in conducting research related to human resources for health and the implementation and use of integrated health information systems in Africa, with special attention to equity considerations. These thematic areas constituted the focus of the ...

Introduction Often health technology assessment (HTA) products developed by the Scottish Health Technologies Group (SHTG) did not reach clear directive conclusions because evidence base for a was weak. Despite being methodologically robust, these meet needs of decision-makers and may have had negligible impact. Methods SHTG set out to equip empower recommendation-making council (that is, apprai...