Clinical trial budgets

Physician remuneration in industry-sponsored clinical trials: the case for standardized clinical trial budgets.

Screening Budgets

How should an organization’s center allocate resources units under its control which are better informed? Even with conscientious productivity reviews, important information will remain asymmetrically held. If units value their own expenditures more than those of their peers, they will seek excess budgets and expenditures. Fortunately, budget authorities can infer productivities from units’ exp...

GENDER BUDGETS MAKE CENTS Understanding Gender Responsive Budgets

Debbie Budlender: Debbie Budlender is a principal researcher for the Community Agency for Social Enquiry (CASE), Cape Town, South Africa. A founding member of the South African Women's Budget Initiative, she is the leading international adviser on gender responsive budget (GRB) initiatives, having worked in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe and the Americas. She has also written extensively o...

Truthful Secretaries with Budgets

We study online auction settings in which agents arrive and depart dynamically in a random (secretary) order, and each agent’s private type consists of the agent’s arrival and departure times, value and budget. We consider multi-unit auctions with additive agents for the allocation of both divisible and indivisible items. For both settings, we devise truthful mechanisms that give a constant app...

Debating personal health budgets

Personal health budgets (PHBs) were piloted in the National Health Service (NHS) in England between 2009 and 2012 and were found to have greater positive effects on quality of life and psychological well-being for those with mental health problems than commissioned service, as well as reducing their use of unplanned care. The government intends to extend PHBs in England for long-term conditions...