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crisis, then they respond was 28% fully agree that
this paper can be considered important to understand
the present situation of the European financial crisis
and given to us possible solutions, but the large part
of readers 72% they fully disagree. The next question
in discussion is about if the database is used by this
academic paper can be trusted to analyzing the
European financial crisis in our days. The results show
that 46% of readers find useful the database of this
academic paper and 54% of readers disagree with
the database is presented on this specific academic
paper. Finally, the last question about which part of
this academic paper they are more interested to read.
According to our results a large number of readers
(46%) they are interested to read only the comments.
Another group prefers to find data (23%), but many
of them (20%) prefer to read the possible scenarios in
the future about the European financial situation and
finally another group of readers (20%) are interested
to get only a general idea about the European
financial crisis.
3. An introduction to the ‘policy
implementation’ section in academic
papers about policy modeling
According to the results in our research about the
effectiveness of policy modeling papers in analyzing
and solving real socio-economic problems, we
propose to include in policy modeling papers a new
section that we will like to call ‘Policy Implementation’
section. This special section need to be included after
the conclusions and before the references according
to our results in this research. The main reason to
include this new section into academic papers about
policy modeling is to propose clear, practical, suitable,
realistic, and effective policies to solve partially or
fully real socio-economic problems that affect on the
society on different levels respectively. This section
need to be shorted (max. 1 page), simple, realistic
and applicable policies enough fast to be read by
any type of reader. Additionally, this section needs
to propose some ideas about the implementation of
different policies into management and institutional
levels. In fact, we like propose a new index to evaluate
this specific section in academic papers related to
policy modeling. This new index will be called ‘Policy
Implementation Effectiveness (PIE-index)’.
4. The policy implementation
effectiveness (PIE-index)
With the Omnia Mobilis assumption (Ruiz Estrada,
2011), this paper proposes the ‘Policy Implementation
Effectiveness (PIE-index)’ as a tool to evaluate policy
modeling in analyzing and solving real socio-economic
problems. This purpose-built index performs the
following functions: (i) to evaluate the consistency
level of any policy; (ii) to identify the strengths and
weaknesses of any policy.
The construction of the PIE-Index involves the use of
forty (40) sub-variables distributed in nine (9) main-
variables. These 9 main-variables are: (X1) policy
vision; (X2) policy approach; (X3) database sources;
(X4) policy orientation; (X5) type of policy; (X6)
policy institutional vision; (X7) applicability of this
policy; (X8) policy geographical coverage; (X9) policy
benefits.
There are three basic steps in the implementation of
the PIE-Index. These steps are: (i) the use of multi-
input-output table; (ii) classification of variables and
identification of parameters; (iii) measurement of the
PIE-Index.
4.1 Steps to implement PIE-index
4.1(i) The use of multi-input-output table
The multi-input-output table (see Table 1) is an
alternative database analysis framework that
permits storage of a large amount of data to measure
any single variable. This single variable can show the
evolution of any policy from a general perspective.
In the construction of the PIE-Index, the multi-
input-output table functions as the basic analytical
framework to measure the “m” number of main-
variables. Each main-variable is formed by “n” number
of sub-variables. The number of sub-variables in each
main-variable is unlimited. As such, the multi-input-