Reducing Unions' Monopoly Power: Costs and Benefits

Clinical Governance: Costs and Benefits

Profit-sharing, Bertrand Competition and Monopoly Unions: a Note

This paper studies a strategic aspect of pro t-sharing in an oligopolistic industry with a monopoly union. Whenever a uniform pro t share exists in the industry, we show that a union that values the per worker remuneration positively, may have incentives to reduce industry employment, decreasing thus total output and causing total pro ts to increase. Thus, we show that pro t-sharing may lead to...

Reducing costs with computer power management

In this work, we present a software-based solution to automate the power control of desktop computers. The deployment of the proposed software system is simply done over the existing infrastructure of the organization, thus minimizing the required investment. Our initial analysis shows a cost reduction of more than 52% by reducing the power consumption of computers and their monitors.

Costs versus Benefits of Increased Electric Power.

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The Costs and Benefits of Reducing Acid Rain

Title IV of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments initiated a dramatic reduction in emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides by electric power plants. This paper presents the results of an integrated assessment of the benefits and costs of the program, using the Tracking and Analysis Framework (TAF) developed for the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (NAPAP). Although dramatic u...