Cost Analysis Applications of Economics and Operations Research: Proceedings of the Institute of Cost Analysis National Conference, Washington, D.C., [Paperback]

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.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.- Pl³n