Devolution has become a cornerstone of modern public-service management and this tendency is confirmed by several reforms carried out during the 1990s, namely in Europe, in the health sector. In this context, resource allocation decisions depend on multiple budget holders. Our objective is therefore to discuss possible consequences of relaxing the hypothesis of a single budget, which has been w...

We consider the problem of link capacity dimensioning and bandwidth allocation in networks that support elastic flows and maintain proportional fairness among these flows. We assume that a certain allocated bandwidth to a user demand generates revenue for the network operator. On the other hand, the operator is incurred a capacity dependent cost for each link in the network. The operator’s prof...

In response to declining funding support and increasing competition, medical schools have developed financial management models to assure that resource allocation supports core mission-related activities. The authors describe the development and implementation of such a model at the University of Wisconsin Medical School. The development occurred in three phases and included consensus building ...

The title of Ball and Mankiw’s paper asks: What Do Budget Deficits Do? One answer to that question is a restatement on the pure theory of debt-financed budget deficits. An alternative answer would develop the effects on the U.S. or world economies on the assumption that the U.S. federal government balances its budget by reducing spending, instead of raising tax rates, or running deficits equal ...

The proper allocation of financial and human resources to the various software development activities is a very important and critical task contributing to the success of the software project. To provide a realistic allocation, the manager of a software development project should account for the various activities needed to ensure the completion of the project with the required quality, on-time...

A major research challenge for spatial crowdsourcing is to improve the expected quality of the results. However, existing research in this field mostly focuses on achieving this objective in volunteer-based spatial crowdsourcing. In this paper, we introduce the budget limitations into the above problem and consider realistic cases where workers are paid unequally based on their trustworthiness....

I study a principal’s optimal choice of constraint for an agent participating in an auction (or auction-like allocation mechanism). I give necessary and sufficient conditions on the principal’s beliefs about the value of the item for a simple budget constraint to be the optimal contract. The results link the observed use of budget constraints to their use in models incorporating budgetconstrain...

The proper allocation of financial and human resources to the various software development activities is a very important and critical task. To provide a realistic allocation, the project manager of a software development project should account for the various activities needed to ensure the completion of the project with the required quality and on-time and within-budget. In this paper, we pro...

BACKGROUND The potential benefits of coordinating infectious disease eradication programs that use campaigns such as supplementary immunization activities (SIAs) should not be over-looked. One example of a coordinated approach is an adaptive "sequential strategy": first, all annual SIA budget is dedicated to the eradication of a single infectious disease; once that disease is eradicated, the an...