ON HYPERBOLIC TIME DISCOUNTING IN EXHAUSTIBLE RESOURCE MODELS: AN APPLICATION TO WORLD OIL RESOURCES

ABSTRACT. Recent research on discounting in long term economic models involves hyperbolic discounting, in which the marginal discount rate shrinks as time passes. To investigate hyperbolic discounting and exhaustible resource allocation, this work develops a discrete‐time world oil model and model solution procedure, then uses the model to examine the consequences of adopting conventional (constant annual) discounting when hyperbolic discounting is appropriate, of adopting one hyperbolic discount rate path when a different hyperbolic path is appropriate, and of adopting hyperbolic discounting when conventional discounting is appropriate. Five conventional and two hyperbolic discount rate paths are considered. One hyperbolic path is that used by Nordhaus and Boyer [2000]; the other is that recommended by Weitzman [2001]. The generality of the findings is also assessed.     

A Modified Quasi-Newton Method for Structured Optimization with Partial Information on the Hessian

This paper develops a modified quasi-Newton method for structured unconstrained optimization with partial information on the Hessian, based on a better approximation to the Hessian in current search direction. The new approximation is decided by both function values and gradients at the last two iterations unlike the original one which only uses the gradients at the last two iterations. The modified method owns local and superlinear convergence. Numerical experiments show that the proposed method is encouraging comparing with the methods proposed in [4] for structured unconstrained optimization Presented at the 6th International Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications, Ballarat, Australia, December 9–11, 2004     

信息技术和教学方式的改革

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现代信息技术在大学英语教学中的应用

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浅谈医院数字图书馆建设

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廊坊市“文化信息资源共享工程”建设分析与研究

在介绍廊坊市“文化信息资源共享工程”建设现状基础上,阐述了资源共享的意义,分析了资源共享存在的问题,研究了相应的解决方法。     

高职院校绩效管理探析

介绍了高职院校绩效管理的含义，分析了影响高职院校绩效管理实施的因素，并提出了实施绩效管理的有效措施。     

浅析西部地区文献信息资源的重组

阐述了西部地区文献信息资源重组应遵循的原则以及文献信息资源重组的条件，并提出了文献信息资源重组的措施。     

信息技术与高职数学课程整合研究

从高职院校的培养目标出发，指出信息技术与高职数学课程整合的目标，分析信息技术环境下高职数学课程的特征，介绍信息技术与高职数学课程整合的策略，阐述信息技术与高职数学课程整合的一些途径。     

强化服务,注重创新,全面推进高校信息工作

面对党中央提出的以科学发展观为统领,努力办好让人民群众满意的教育,促进社会主义和谐社会建设的新形势、新任务,高校信息工作者如何进一步做好信息报送工作、提高信息报送的质量,笔者试从思想意识、队伍建设、服务内容、服务手段等方面提出进一步做好此项工作的建议。