This paper presents a survey and overview of the evaluation of infrastructure regulation and regulatory agencies. It covers the development of ex ante and ex post evaluation based on costbenefit analysis and the application of these methods to regulation in the UK, the European Union and the USA. Much of the work in this area has been on infrastructure regulation in developing countries. The pa...

In recent years economists have been taking an increasing interest in the evaluation of health expenditures. One technique used has been costbenefit analysis, which attempts to evaluate as exhaustively as possible the costs and benefits of the implementation of investment projects, usually in the public sector of the economy. Cost-benefit studies have looked, for example, at cancer, tuberculosi...

Since web prefetching techniques were proposed in the second half of the 90s as mechanisms to reduce final users’ perceived latency, few attempts to evaluate their performance have been done in the research literature. Even more, to the knowledge of the authors this is the first study that evaluates different proposals from the user’s point of view, i.e., considering the latency perceived by th...

The positive impact of parenting programs on the health and wellbeing individuals their immediate community has been confirmed in many studies. Often, especially during Covid-19 pandemics, prevention are stalled due to other policy priorities. Costbenefit analysis (CBA) can be used for economic evaluation public support evidence-based policies allows comparison monetized effects across differen...

Duplicated code or code clones are a kind of code smell that have both positive and negative impacts on the development and maintenance of software systems. Software clone research in the past mostly focused on the detection and analysis of code clones, while research in recent years extends to the whole spectrum of clone management. In the last decade, three surveys appeared in the literature,...

Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors. Preferences were heterogeneous, ranging from deontological to strongly consequentialist; the median respondent would support payments by a public agency if ...

Intercropping is a labor-intensive practice largely adopted by smallholder farmers to increase yield per unit area, cope with crop failures and market fluctuations, meet food preferences farm income. A field experiment was conducted examine the performances intercropping efficiencies of sweet corn okra planted in young rubber plantation. The treatments were arranged Randomized Complete Block De...

Present paper derives fuzzy economic models to evaluate the economic feasibility of information security investment. The Net Present Value (NPV), and discounted Return on Investment (dRoI) models are proposed for the execution of costbenefit analysis. Since fuzzy results are in the form of a complex nonlinear representation, and do not always provide a totally ordered set in the same way that c...

The major aim of this special issue is to demonstrate that in the eighteen years since that comment in The Economist, the nature of the problem with long-run discounting and its compatibility with the concept of ‘sustainable develeopment’, as used by the Brundtland Commission, has become clearer. The practice of discounting the future has long been controversial both within the economics profes...

Despite a decade of exhortation and self-criticism since the perinatal survey of 19581 two recent publications2 3 reveal serious shortcomings in our maternity services. The next 10 years will see a reduced birth rate and an increased hospital confinement rate, together with widespread use of early discharge schemes. The latter were originally devised as a forced economy to increase total hospit...