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Tabla de Contenidos: “…""Part Two: Investment Policy Formulation: Goals-Based Allocation""""Chapter 4: A Brief Journey through Institutional Theory""; ""Five Important Features of the Typical Institutional Investment Organization""; ""A Quick Detour via Asset Liability Management""; ""Summary and Conclusions""; ""Chapter 5: Mapping Institutional and Individual Issues""; ""The First Crucial Difference""; ""A Second Important Difference""; ""A Different Way of Defining Risk""; ""The Law of Large Numbers""; ""Implications""; ""Summary and Conclusions""; ""Chapter 6: Goals-Based Strategic Asset Allocation""…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…; ""Can You Trust the Government's Analyses of Its Policies' Benefits?""; ""The Beltway's Multiplier Mania""; ""Multiplier Effects: How Real Are They?""…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 SIMPLE Economic Theory -- Chapter 3 Grid-level Analysis Using SIMPLE-G -- Chapter 4 Equilibrium Conditions and General Assumptions for a Quantitative Geospatial Economic Model -- Chapter 5 SIMPLE-G Model Specification -- Chapter 6 Benchmark Data -- Chapter 7 Behavioral Parameters -- Chapter 8 Computation and Baseline -- Chapter 9 Model Validation -- Chapter 10 The R&D Cost of Climate Mitigation in Agriculture -- Chapter 11 Gridded Implications of Total Factor Productivity Growth -- Chapter 12 Local Groundwater Sustainability Policies and Global Spillovers -- Chapter 13 The Role of Labor Markets in Determining the Efficacy and Distribution Impact of Sustainability Policies -- Chapter 14 Tackling Policy Leakage and Targeting Hot Spots Could Be Key to Addressing the “Wicked” Challenge of Nutrient Pollution from Corn Production in the United States -- Chapter 15 The Role of Transportation Infrastructure Expansion in the Transmission of Global Crop Price Shocks to the Brazilian Agriculture -- Chapter 16 Global Groundwater Sustainability and Virtual Water Trade -- Chapter 17 Interplay Between the Pandemic and Environmental Stressors -- Chapter 18 Future Directions…”

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