International Update, July-August 2006

News from the Iowa International Office

Motor Vehicle Accident Fatalities for the Week Ending, August 11, 2006

Record of the Fatalities for Motor Vehicle Accidents in Iowa per week.

Executive Order Number Sixty Seven, August 21, 1998

Establishs the Council for continuous improvment in Education to facilitation statewide effort to prepare, recruit, induct, retrain effective educational infrastrucational

EPI Update, August 11, 2006

Weekly newsletter for Center For Acute Disease Epidemiology of Iowa Department of Public Health.

ABD e-News, August 11, 2006

Weekly Newsletter

ABD e-News, August 18, 2006

Weekly Newsletter

EPI Update, August 18, 2006

Weekly newsletter for Center For Acute Disease Epidemiology of Iowa Department of Public Health.

Footnotes, June, July, August 2006, Vol. 31, no. 6-7-8

Monthly newsletter of the State Library

ABD e-News, August 25, 2006

Weekly Newsletter

Motor Vehicle Accident Fatalities for the Week Ending, August 25, 2006

Record of the Fatalities for Motor Vehicle Accidents in Iowa per week.

Motor Vehicle Accident Fatalities for the Week Ending, August 18, 2006

Record of the Fatalities for Motor Vehicle Accidents in Iowa per week.

EPI Update, August 25, 2006

Weekly newsletter for Center For Acute Disease Epidemiology of Iowa Department of Public Health.

Report on the Special Investigation of the Nutrition Department of the Boone Community School District, For the Period August 30, 2004 through March 31, 2006 and Selected Activity for the period February 28, 2000 through March 31, 2006

Community School District Audit Report - Special Investigation

Global Prospects for Dairy in Argentina and Chile: Evidence from Field Visits and Model Simulations, August 2006

We assess the international competitiveness of the dairy industries in Argentina and Chile, combining recent market intelligence gathered from field visits with quantitative simulations of global policy reform scenarios. Both countries exhibit strong potential for export growth but face significant internal and external barriers to expanding their dairy industries. Global policy reforms would resolve some of the international obstacles to their expansion. Argentina has great potential, but it is handicapped by its current macroeconomic policies, trade policy distortions, and the uncertainty associated with policy implementation. Chile is more limited in terms of natural capacity for expansion, but it has a positive trade and investment environment.

Optimal Design of Permit Markets with an Ex Ante Pollution Target, August 2006

In this paper, we examine the design of permit trading programs when the objective is to minimize the cost of achieving an ex ante pollution target, that is, one that is defined in expectation rather than an ex post deterministic value. We consider two potential sources of uncertainty, the presence of either of which can make our model appropriate: incomplete information on abatement costs and uncertain delivery coefficients. In such a setting, we find three distinct features that depart from the well-established results on permit trading: (1) the regulator’s information on firms’ abatement costs can matter; (2) the optimal permit cap is not necessarily equal to the ex ante pollution target; and (3) the optimal trading ratio is not necessarily equal to the delivery coefficient even when it is known with certainty. Intuitively, since the regulator is only required to meet a pollution target on average, she can set the trading ratio and total permit cap such that there will be more pollution when abatement costs are high and less pollution when abatement costs are low. Information on firms’ abatement costs is important in order for the regulator to induce the optimal alignment between pollution level and abatement costs.