Estimating the benefits and costs of forming business partnerships

Risk allocation and the costs and benefits of publicprivate partnerships

We study the agency costs of delegated public service provision, focusing on the link between organizational forms and uncertainty at project implementation. We consider a dynamic multitask moral hazard environment where the mapping between effort and performance is ex ante uncertain but new information may arise during operations. Our analysis highlights the costs and benefits that bundling pl...

Costs and Benefits of Business information

This article analyzes the costs and benefits of disclosures of information by profit-making enterprises. It excludes the costs and benefits of disclosure by governmental entities and private-sector, not-for-profit entities. Entirely different issues arise when disclosure must be related to the goals and effective functioning of democracy and charitable undertakings. Even when narrowed, however,...

Clinical Governance: Costs and Benefits

Estimating the Direct Costs and Benefits of Alternative Approaches

We have reviewed studies demonstrating that effective early intervention could reduce either the actual incidence of later criminal behavior or at least the risk factors (such as child abuse or behavioral problems in school) that are closely associated with future criminality. In this chapter, we estimate the direct costs and crime-reduction benefits of implementing such programs in California ...

Understanding Business Process Models: The Costs and Benefits of Structuredness

Previous research has put forward various metrics of business process models that are correlated with understandability. Two such metrics are size and degree of (block-)structuredness. What has not been sufficiently appreciated at this point is that these desirable properties may be at odds with one another. This paper presents the results of a twopronged study aimed at exploring the trade-off ...