This paper examines how the quality of exports depends on relative country size and its remoteness. Specific transportation cost is the key variable in our analysis as it gives rise to the Alchian-Allen effect. In the model, we allow for endogenous quality choice by a producer serving many international locations. Higher quality comes at higher marginal cost of production, but can be delivered ...

592 Older Women With Localized Breast Cancer: Costs And Survival Rates Increased Across Two Time Periods Aaron J. Feinstein, Jessica Long, Pamela R. Soulos, Xiaomei Ma, Jeph Herrin, Kevin D. Frick, Anees B. Chagpar, Harlan M. Krumholz, James B. Yu, Joseph S. Ross, and Cary P. Gross 601 Wide Variation In Payments For Medicare Beneficiary Oncology Services Suggests Room For Practice-Level Improve...

The area of my research is Digital Archeology [1]: a study of software developers’ culture and behavior through the recovery, documentation, and analysis of digital remains. These digital traces reflect various projections of collective and individual activity. The fundamental method of Digital Archeology is the reconstruction and quantification of the behavior of an individual, a team, or an o...

Algorithms for crowdsourced tasks such as entity resolution, sorting, etc. have been subject to a variety of research work. So far, all of this work has focused on one specific problem respectively. In this paper, we want to focus on the bigger picture. More specifically, we want to show how it is possible to estimate the budget or the quality of an algorithm in a crowdsourcing environment wher...

this paper presents a new approach which is based on quality control in order to optimize supplier selection. using inspections, removing the defected materials and considering penalties for low quality materials are the main factors which we have considered in modeling. in this model costs are divided to three parts: 1- costs of purchasing 2- costs of inspection policy 3- costs of quality and ...