BACKGROUND In responding to the health challenges of climate change, those responsible for health policies and resource allocations need to know the resource consequences of their decisions. This article examines the availability and strength of economic evidence for policy makers to draw on in making health policy decisions. METHODS Relevant literature was obtained using a Medline and INTERN...

Although the notion of costs is a major mechanism in economic theory explaining the industrial organization, costs associated with various forms of inter-firm relationships have been largely neglected in the literature. This paper deals with the notion of sunk costs related to networks of inter-firm relationships with a focus on the dynamics of the network structures. Two perspectives of sunk c...

OBJECTIVE To present a hypothetical model of the change in economic costs and health benefits to society that result from nosocomial infection control programs. DESIGN We use a modeling framework to represent how 2 types of costs change with nosocomial infection control programs: costs incurred by the hospital sector and community health services, as well as the private costs to patients. We ...

This research applies transaction cost economics to conceptually investigate longitudinal change of IT outsourcing costs, and its impact on managerial sourcing decisions. I propose that the change of, and underestimation of actual IT outsourcing costs contribute to IT insourcing. Implications and recommendations for future research are provided.