Cost Analysis Applications of Economics and Operations Research: Proceedings of the Institute of Cost Analysis National Conference, Washington, D.C., July 5–7, 1989(332 Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)

Cost Analysis is an emerging sub-discipline of Economics and Operations Research. This is the first collection of readings that spans the discipline. The contributions are both theoretical and applications oriented. This book is directed to researchers in Economics, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, and Managerial Accounting. In particular, the book provides an overview of the types of problems that are of interest to cost researchers. These papers are a subset of the papers that were presented at the 1989 Joint National Meeting of the Institute of Cost Analysis and the National Estimating Society in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents:
I. Procurement and Contracting.- The Prototype Model of Defense Procurement.- A Contract Termination Processing Model and System for Naval Supply Demand Review (SDR) Actions.- Hellfire Missile Competition Case Study.- Strategies for Reliability Incentive Contracting.- II. Cost and Economics.- A Stochastic Theory of the Generalized Cobb-Douglas Production Function.- Turbulence, Cost Escalation and Capital Intensity Bias in Defense Contracting.- Modeling the Firm-Level Multiproduct Cost Structure of Agricultural Production.- Transaction Costs and Their Impact on Energy Demand Behaviour.- III. Efficiency in Production.- Returns to Scale and Efficiency in Production: A Distance Function Approach to Southern Illinois Hog Farms.- Variable Cost Frontiers and Efficiency: An Investigation of Labor Costs in Hospitals.- Costing Out Quality Changes: An Econometric Frontier Analysis of U.S. Navy Enlistments.- IV. Recent Developments in Cost Modeling.- Cost Modeling for Design Justification.- The Effect of Technology on the Supportability and Cost of Avionics Equipment.- Rocket Propulsion Cost Modeling.- Schedule Estimating Relationships for Tactical Aircraft.- V. Production Lot Sizing.- Lot Sizing and Work-In-Process Inventories in Single Stage Production Systems.- Optimal Strategies for Investment in Setup Cost Reductions in a Just-in-Time Environment.- Process Control With Lot Sizing.- VI. Mathematical Programming Models for Cost Analysis.- Evaluation of Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing as a Survey Methodology by Means of Cost Models and Mathematical Programming.- Two Quadratic Programming Acquisition Models With Reciprocal Services.- VII. Operations and Support Cost.- Analyzing the Economic Impacts of a Military Mobilization.- The Value of Weapon System Reliability in a Combat Environment: Costs and Performance.- The Use of the Army College Fund: Implications for Program Cost Effectiveness.