Cost Analysis Applications of Economics and Operations Research

1. Front Matter

   Pages N1-VII

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2. Procurement and Contracting

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Prototype Model of Defense Procurement

      • Katsuaki L. Terasawa, Stanley M. Besen

      Pages 3-33

   3. A Contract Termination Processing Model and System for Naval Supply Demand Review (SDR) Actions

      • Christopher K. Carlson, Stephen R. Ruth, Merrill E. Warkentin

      Pages 34-44

   4. Hellfire Missile Competition Case Study

      • Bruce M. Miller

      Pages 45-61

   5. Strategies for Reliability Incentive Contracting

      • Irwin Greenberg

      Pages 62-71

3. Cost and Economics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. A Stochastic Theory of the Generalized Cobb-Douglas Production Function

      • John F. Muth

      Pages 75-95

   3. Turbulence, Cost Escalation and Capital Intensity Bias in Defense Contracting

      • Katsuaki Terasawa, James Quirk, Keith Womer

      Pages 97-116

   4. Modelling the Firm-Level Multiproduct Cost Structure of Agricultural Production

      • Abiodun Ojemakinde, Mark D. Lange, Thomas P. Zacharias

      Pages 117-129

   5. Transaction Costs and their Impact on Energy Demand Behaviour

      • Erich Unterwurzacher, Franz Wirl

      Pages 130-141

4. Efficiency in Production

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143

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   2. Returns to Scale and Efficiency in Production: A Distance Function Approach to Southern Illinois Hog Farms

      • R. Färe, W. Herr, D. Njinkeu

      Pages 145-159

   3. Variable Cost Frontiers and Efficiency: An Investigation of Labor Costs in Hospitals

      • Patricia Byrnes, Vivian Valdmanis

      Pages 160-175

   4. Costing out Quality Changes: An Econometric Frontier Analysis of U.S. Navy Enlistments

      • Richard C. Morey

      Pages 176-193

5. Recent Developments in Cost Modeling

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195

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   2. Cost Modeling for Design Justification

      • James S. Noble, J. M. A. Tanchoco

      Pages 197-213

   3. The Effect of Technology on the Supportability and Cost of Avionics Equipment

      • Daniel B. Levine, Stanley A. Horowitz, Joseph W. Stahl

      Pages 214-225

   4. Rocket Propulsion Cost Modeling

      • Arve R. Sjovold, Damon C. Morrison

      Pages 226-258

   5. Schedule Estimating Relationships for Tactical Aircraft

      • Bruce R. Harmon, Lisa M. Ward, Paul R. Palmer

      Pages 259-280

Cost Analysis is an emerging sub-discipline of Economics and Operations Research. This is the first collection of readings that spans the discipline. The contributions are both theoretical and applications oriented. This book is directed to researchers in Economics, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, and Managerial Accounting. In particular, the book provides an overview of the types of problems that are of interest to cost researchers. These papers are a subset of the papers that were presented at the 1989 Joint National Meeting of the Institute of Cost Analysis and the National Estimating Society in Washington, D.C.

• economics
• efficiency
• mathematical programming
• modeling
• operations research
• optimization
• quadratic programming
• strategy

• Decision Sciences Department, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA

  Thomas R. Gulledge

• E. Claiborne Robins School of Business, University of Richmond, Richmond, USA

  Lewis A. Litteral

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