<title>Abstract</title> This paper develops a royalty negotiation model based on the operating quantity of Build, Operate, and Transfer (BOT) projects for both government and the private sector using a bi-level programming (BLP) approach. The royalty negotiation is one of many critical negotiation items of a...

This study constructs a royalty negotiation model for the bi-level programming (BLP) problem and develops a heuristic algorithm for solving the BLP problem. Concession rate, learning effect, and the time value discount rate are integrated into the proposed algorithm to reflect an authentic...

This study investigates the impacts of telecommunications policy on productivity change of the Chunghwa Telecom Company (CHT) from pre- to post-privatization. A three-stage method is employed to measure the productivity scores of CHT during the period 1966–2008. The Malmquist productivity...

Villages of Yangzhong County, typical of comparatively well-off countryside in Eastern China, are in a period of rapid transformation of their energy consumption from non-commercial to commercial. A five-year questionnaire of rural household energy consumption showed marked change in energy...

This study presents a transformed first-price sealed-bid auction with independent private values to determine the equilibrium royalties and subsidies in Public–Private Partnerships. The proposed model implies that royalties and subsidies are influenced by the true values bidders assign to a...

Many managers, economists, and policy-makers have long believed that the production of a private enterprise is more efficient than that of a public one. This paper investigated whether it was good policy to privatize Taiwan's telecommunications industry by comparing the changes in efficiency in...

chapter 1 Introduction: Transport in Asia -- part PART 1 Transportation systems -- chapter 2 High-speed railways in Asia -- chapter 3 The Asian Highway and Trans-Asian Railway networks: Origins, progress of development and prospects in the future -- part Part II Traffic accidents, air pollution...

This paper tries to construct a performance evaluation procedure for highway buses with the financial ratio taken into consideration. First, a conceptual framework is redeveloped, based on the one created by Fielding et al ., to help form evaluation items and performance indicators involving...