M edical technology is now subject to the same economic scrutiny that was historically reserved for public health and disease prevention programs. It has long been true that vaccination, health education, and screening programs have been required by both public and private health care agencies to prove their economic worth before they could be funded. A frequently encountered criterion for fund...

In this paper, an inventory model with ramp type demand rate with inflation and time value of money is developed. The deterioration rate follows three-parameter Weibull distribution with the concept of life time of an item. Shortages are also allowed and unsatisfied demand is partially backlogged. The model is fairly general in practice, as the demand of some items such as fashionable items inc...

We examine optimal monetary policy under prevailing Chinese policies – including capital controls, nominal exchange rate targets, and costly sterilization of foreign capital inflows. China’s combination of capital controls and exchange rate pegs disrupts its monetary policy, precluding adjustments that could maintain macroeconomic stability following a set of shocks that mirror its experience d...

The paper investigates the relationship between the stock market and the monetary policy of the Federal Reserve in the last twenty years. To this purpose we construct an Index of Stock Price Misalignment in which the fundamental value of the stocks is computed on the basis of the discounted cash flow approach and we then include this index, among the regressors, into a forward looking Taylor ru...

Monetary valuation of aircraft noise: a hedonic analysis around Amsterdam airport 76 6.1