Task A04
Task A04
Task A04
Below you find a description of a very simple fisheries model, also known as the basic Fish Banks
model. The two main variables in a fisheries model are fish and ships.
Suppose the number of fish only increases through the fish hatch rate and decreases both through the
fish death rate and the total catch per year. Suppose that the fish hatch rate equals the fish times the
hatch fraction.
The fish death rate is equal to the death fraction times the fish. The death fraction is a function of the
carrying capacity and the number of Fish. The total catch per year depends on the number of ships
and the annual catch per ship which is a function of the fish density.
The density is defined as the amounts of fish in the fishing area divided by the area. Suppose that the
number of Ships increases via the ship building rate which is a function of the investment costs per
ship, annual profits and fraction reinvested.
The annual profits are calculated as the revenues minus the costs. Assume that the revenues equal
the total catch per year times the fish price and that the costs equal the unit ship operating costs times
the number of ships.
• In case of undesirable conclusions, change the diagrams to turn undesirable into desirable.
Konstanta :
• Carrying Capacity
• Fishing Area
• Investment Costs per Ship
• Fraction Reinvested
Variabel :
• Number of Fish
• Hatch Fraction
• Fish Hatch Rate
• Death Fraction
• Fish Death Rate
• Fish Density
• Annual Catch per Ship
• Total Catch per Year
• Fish Price
• Revenue
• Number of Ships
• Revenue
• Ship Building Rate
• Unit Ship Operating Cost
• Cost
• Annual Profit
HOUSING POLICIES
Real estate demand in densely populated urban areas with sufficient land to extend is often rather
price sensitive:
declining property prices for instance caused by relative oversupply, i.e. real supply exceeding real
estate demand, results in rapid demand rises.
Construction companies often initiate new projects based on the demand for properties.
Increased demand leads to new projects being initiated. Real estate construction projects are often
completed with relatively long delays of about 2-3 years.
Many construction companies tend to operate in these areas. And they are mostly unaware or do
not keep track of construction projects in
• Area Available
Variabel :
A traditional bank run starts when (correct or incorrect) information about potential problems at a
bank leads to fear of a bank failure. More fear leads to a higher tendency to withdraw personal
savings. An increase of withdrawals leads to a decrease of the perceived solvency of the bank which
leads to more fear of a bank failure. An increase of withdrawals also leads to a decrease of liquid
bank reserves and hence to a lower liquidity of the bank. Banks then need to turn more and more
illiquid assets into liquid assets (money) to have sufficient liquid assets to pay for (future)
withdrawals. Due to the speed required to liquidate illiquid assets, huge losses are often made,
resulting in a reduction of the solvency of the bank. The lower the solvency of the bank, the lower
the perceived solvency of the bank, which leads to more fear of a bank failure. Weak or uncertain
economic conditions result in more fear and lower perceived solvency.
• 1. Make a causal loop diagram of this description. This causal loop diagram should be similar to the
ones described in (Richardson 1991; MacDonald 2002). How many feedback loops are there? What
is their polarity?
Variabel :
2. Semakin lemah dan tidak tentunya kondisi ekonomi menyebakan semakin tinggi The Fear of Bank
Failure dan semakin tinggi Tendency to Withdraw Personal Savings. Semakin tingginya Tendency to
Withdraw Personal Savings, menyebabkan semakin rendahnya The Perceived Solvency of The Bank
dan juga mempengaruhi semakin rendahnya Liquid Bank Reserves dan rendahnya The Solvency of
The Bank. Semakin rendahnya The Perceived Solvency of The Bank akan secara berulang menaikkan
The Fear of Bank Failure.
Pada sistem cenderung untuk menyelasaikan gejala-gejalanya saja namun bukan inti masalahnya.
Terutama ketika waktu kebijakan liquidity tetap diimplementasikan. Bank seharusnya berfokus pada
solusi masalah inti yang mampu menciptakan kondisi keuangan yang lebih stabil, seperti melalukan
prediksi (forecasting) dan menyiapkan safety net untuk menanggulangi kerugian.
ENERGY TRANSITIONS
Energy Transitions are dynamically complex: they are governed by many feedback effects and long
delays. Energy transitions are also deeply uncertain: major uncertainties –related to individuals,
particular technologies, the entire system, and hence for policy/decision makers in the energy field–
are omnipresent. Energy technologies face many uncertainties and need to overcome many hurdles,
even before becoming commercially viable and entering the energy technologies battlefield.
• One of these hurdles is the so-called ‘valley of death’. That is, quite often, entrepreneurs and
technology developers bring a new technology to the pre-commercial stage, but due to a lack of
investments, it does not survive the phase between (subsidized) entrepreneurial technology
development and large-scale commercial take-off in which subsidies are (often) forbidden. It is hard
to predict which promising technologies will actually make it, and hence, which might possibly
become the technologies of the future.
• Many self-reinforcing uncertainties influence perceived certainty related to each new technology.
The lower the perceived certainty, the higher the perceived risk and the lower the entrepreneurial
willingness to acquire knowledge/experiment/lobby/. . . in order to bring a technology to the point
where it would be considered a good investment. Resources for actions to reduce uncertainty may
actually help to take this hurdle and may lead to more perceived certainty and raise perceptions
about the potential success of the technology. This in turn reinforces (intrinsic) entrepreneurial
motivation, resulting in more willingness to act. A reduction of the perceived risk and an increase of
the entrepreneurial motivation are the preconditions to further the state of development and
increase the willingness to invest of entrepreneurs and risk-taking energy companies, which in turn
leads to more real investments, contributing to the success of the technology, reinforcing the
willingness to invest, etc.
• 1. Make a CLD of the pre-battlefield struggle. How many loops are there? What is their polarity?
What would be appropriate names?
Ada 5 Loop :
2. Policy Recommendation :
Sistem memiliki potensi untuk mengalami pertumbuhan di masa depan. Oleh karena itu, pihak
pemerintah perlu membuat regulasi untuk mempertahankan ketersediaan sumber daya (resources)
sehingga entrepreuner-entrepreuner mampu bersaing secara sehat dalam memanfaatkan sumber
daya yang sama.