A quality-adjusted cost index for estimating future consumer surplus from innovation... Illustrative results�estimated cost indices and 95% confidence bounds�are presented for technologies that are expected to improve consumer welfare and for those that, on a quality-adjusted cost basis, are likely to be outperformed by the selected baseline technology.
Earned value and cost contingency management: a framework model for risk adjusted cost forecasting... The model integrates the dynamics of how project managers can spend their contingencies into three S-shaped cost growth profi les to compute risk adjusted cost estimates at completion (CEAC)....
The joint determination of marginal rate of return and interest adjusted cost for whole life insuranceLinear programming is applied to measurement of whole life insurance to obtain a functional relationship between interest adjusted cost of insurance protection and rate of return on policy equity....
Quality adjusted cost functions... We apply this method to estimate quality-adjusted cost functions in the nursing home industry....
