Abstract Construction projects are complex endeavors where achieving higher quality standards is challenging due to the intrinsic difficulties and dynamic management processes. Several techniques exist overcome concerns, such as cost of (COQ). However, implementing COQ in building construction absence a comprehensive cost-capturing system. studies have tried quantify different costs but mainly ...

We examine the welfare effects of price and disclosure regulation in a model where firms can shroud add-on costs, such as penalty fees for consumer financial products. Such regulation can increase or decrease welfare even when there are no direct costs. There are, however, strong complementarities between price controls and disclosure mandates: conditional on disclosure be­ ing mandated, price ...

This paper models a market in which one firm sells a good with a public base price and a hidden additional fee. Consumers are separated by high and low search costs and have the opportunity to incur their search cost to learn the true value of the add-on price. The firm has a discontinuous profit function that models its trade off between increasing the base price and losing consumers who drop ...

Research evaluation is praised as the symbol of modern quality management. We claim firstly, that output evaluations in academic research have higher costs than normally assumed, because the evaluated persons and institutions systematically change their behavior and develop counter strategies. Moreover, intrinsic work motivation is crowded out and undesired lock-in effects take place. Secondly,...

The issues of the development innovative processes in agriculture Uzbekistan on example Tashkent province were revealed this paper. assimilation and further widespread dissemination innovations are becoming key factors growth production employment agriculture. It is here that most significant reserves for improving product quality, saving labor material costs, increasing productivity, organizat...

Page based software DSMs experience high degrees of false sharing especially in irregular applications with fine grain sharing granularity. The overheads due to false sharing is considered to be the dominant factor limiting the performance of software DSMs. Several approaches have been proposed in the literature to reduce/eliminate false sharing. In this paper, we evaluate two of these approach...