Engineering Economist articles from June 2001

Engineering Economist archives from June 2001

MEASURING THE IMPACT OF PRICE CAPS ON PRODUCTIVE EFFICIENCY IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES.
June 22, 2001... ABSTRACT Incentive regulation is now an important regulatory tool in the telecommunications industry in the United States. The issue explored here is whether incentive regulation has resulted in an increase in productive efficiency. After...

USING BIDDING STATISTICS TO PREDICT COMPLETED CONSTRUCTION COST.
June 22, 2001... ABSTRACT The completed cost of a competitively bid construction project often exceeds the original low bid. This paper presents two models to predict completed construction cost based upon characteristics of the submitted bids. Data on...

MULTI-ITEM ECONOMIC ORDER QUANTITY MODEL WITH AN INITIAL STOCK OF CONVERTIBLE UNITS.
June 22, 2001... ABSTRACT In this paper we consider a group of end items facing level demand patterns and opportunities for regular purchasing. In addition, there are a number of units that can be converted into any one of the end items, but at different...

AN EXCESS INVENTORY MODEL OF DETERIORATING ITEMS TAKING ACCOUNT OF PRESENT VALUE.
June 22, 2001... ABSTRACT In this study, both deterioration and present value are considered to derive an economic time supply when there is excess inventory. An excess inventory model is developed for a deterministic perpetual inventory system. Our goal...

MACRS DEPRECIATION WITH A SPREADSHEET FUNCTION: A TEACHING AND PRACTICE NOTE.
June 22, 2001... ABSTRACT While Excel[TM] and Quattro Pro[TM] do not have a function MACRS(cost, class life, year), they do have a variable declining balance function, VDB, that can be used to compute annual MACRS depreciation amounts. A literature search...

VBA FOR MODELERS: DEVELOPING DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS WITH MICROSOFT EXCEL.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... BY CHRISTIAN S. ALBRIGHT University of North Carolina at Wilmington Duxbury Press, Pacific Grove, California, 2001, xxi + 549 Pp., with accompanying CD. ISBN 0-534-38012-3. (Paperback). List: $29.95. This fine new book is intended...