La noche de los asesinos: Text, Staging and Audience

La noche de los asesinos: Text, Staging and Audienc

Coherent Websites and Creative Play: Constructivist Approaches to Information Technology in Teacher Education

This paper qualitatively compares two different approaches to teaching information technology to pre-service teachers. The approaches (Creative Play and Coherent Websites) have their origins in different cultural settings. Both approaches emerge from constructivist views and aim at engaging students in conversations and collaborations that sensitize them to the sorts of classroom issues they will confront when they are teachers.This paper qualitatively compares two different approaches to teaching information technology to pre-service teachers. The approaches (Creative Play and Coherent Websites) have their origins in different cultural settings. Both approaches emerge from constructivist views and aim at engaging students in conversations and collaborations that sensitize them to the sorts of classroom issues they will confront when they are teachers

A Scheme For Incentivizing Investment in Transmission Enhancements

We present an incentive scheme to stimulate investment in the improvement/ expansion of the transmission network in the competitive market environment. The formulation of these incentives is based on a decentralized transmission asset investment model and is derived from the value added to the social welfare by an asset investment. In the formulation we view each potential investor as a player in a cooperative game and we use the unique solution provided by the Shapley value to allocate the payment to each successful investor commensurated with the increase in social welfare the investment brings to the system. The formulation brings valuable insights on the transmission investment topic. We apply the proposed methodology to the Garver 6-bus system to illustrate the capabilites and flexibility of the scheme and to gain insights into the development of network improvements through the formulation proposed

Gravity estimation of non tariff measures (NTMs) on EU-USA agri-food trade: Implications for further analysis

Under development: This year marks the formal opening of trade negotiations between the world's two largest trading partners – the European Union (EU) and the United States of America (USA). It is expected that the transatlantic partnership negotiations will face significant obstacles on both sides, which in turn places the burden on economists to provide plausible impact assessments to inform policy makers. Unfortunately, modelling databases whilst rich with detailed disaggregated representations of tariff barriers, still underperform in the case of non- tariff measure counterparts. Indeed, unlike conventional tariff measures, NTMs do not have a transparent price effect which can be readily inserted into an economic model. Over the last decade, the usage of gravity models has received recognition as one such tool for understanding the 'part-worth' of NTM measures on trade restrictiveness. This paper also employs a gravity approach, whilst the explorative nature of the research restricts the current focus to four agro-food sectors. Preliminary results suggest that NTMs impose a relatively equivalent ad valorem equivalent (AVE) trade cost on trade flows of cattle meat and processed rice in both directions. In the case of cattle meat, this appears to be consistent with the retaliatory nature of NTM instruments employed by US importers on EU bans. In beverages and tobacco and dairy products, however, the AVE of the NTM is higher on EU imports of US goods. In the case of beverages and tobacco, this finding appears to be consistent with the qualitative survey work conducted in ECORYS (2009), whilst the result for US dairy imports from the EU remains at first sight, counterintuitive and deserving of further research.non-tariff measuresgravity equationresidual approachagri-foodPublishe

Capturing zero trade values in gravity equations of trade: A disaggregated sectoral analysis

European Association of Agricultural Economist