Recent findings in social cost of tobacco for NSW For the financial year 1998–99, the social cost of tobacco use in NSW was estimated to be $6.6 billion. This figure includes the tangible costs of tobacco use (such as net labour costs to the workforce and household, health care costs and resources used in tobacco consumption) and intangible costs. The estimated intangible social costs of tobacc...

As part of an effort to examine the value of intangible assets in the firm, our study is the first to create IT-related intangible asset stocks from firm-level survey data. We also use data on ITrelated business practices in order to understand the distribution of IT-related intangibles, and we create asset stocks to value research and development (R&D) and brand. Using a panel of 130 firms ove...

Organizations frequently consider offshore systems development in the belief that projects can be completed at lower cost. While prices quoted by offshore vendors are often very appealing when compared with domestic vendors, additional risks must be considered when looking into offshore systems development. These risks typically take the form of intangible and indirect project costs which add t...

The Summer Olympic Games, it is argued, is a significant cultural good as well as a popular sporting spectacle; it provides the impetus for environmental and economic improvements in the host city, gives a boost to national pride and so on. This paper examines whether there is an economic basis for such claims. To date, attempts to quantify the benefits of hosting major sporting events have foc...

Organizations frequently consider offshore systems development in the belief that projects can be completed for lower cost. While prices quoted by offshore vendors are often very appealing when compared with domestic vendors, there are additional risks that must be considered when looking to offshore systems development. These risks typically take the form of intangible and indirect project cos...

The development, implementation and ownership of information systems, especially large-scale systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), has become progressively longer in duration and more cost intensive. As a result, IS managers are being required to justify projects financially based on their return. Historically, information systems have been difficult to quantify in monetary terms ...

In this paper we examine the determinants of economic value and investment behavior of the multi-asset firm when the firm internally produces intangible assets in the process of making fully productive the externally purchased ones and it has market power. The theoretical models are estimated with data from Spanish banks on material (branches, financial), immaterial (advertising and IT) and int...

This paper reviews the economic models most commonly applied to estimate the value of intellectual property and other forms of intangible assets. It highlights the key strengths and weaknesses of these models. One of the apparent weaknesses of the most commonly used valuation models is the failure to incorporate legal rights into their calculations. Creation, maintenance, and enforcement of leg...

BACKGROUND The economic burden of diseases has become increasingly relevant to policy makers as healthcare expenditure keep rising in the face of limited and competing resources. Buruli ulcer (BU), a neglected but treatable tropical disease caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans, the only known environmental mycobacterium is capable of causing long term disability when left untreated. However, most B...