The main purposes of this study are to incorporate both the project delay penalty and early completion bonus into the objective function of the resource-constrained multi-project scheduling problem with discounted cash flows (RCMPSP-DCF) and to develop an efficient heuristic search scheduling...

Compensating balances are deposits the borrowing firm keeps with the lending bank in non-interest bearing accounts on loans. It is well known that, when there is no compensating balance imposed, the effective cost of debt remains the same in the two different payment methods, full amortization...

Many claim that, with regard to transportation infrastructure, only partnerships between public and private entities, which draw on the strengths of both, can achieve the goals of enhancing operational efficiency, increasing service delivery, improving asset maintenance, and stretching scarce...

Financial feasibility and financial return are two key issues that farmers andland owners consider when deciding between alternative land uses such as arablefarming, forestry and agroforestry. Moreover regional variations in yields,prices and government grants mean that the relative revenue and...

If enterprises with limited capacities can carry out several long term projects, the question of the optimum order of these projects arises. A decisive criterion in analogy to the equivalent annuity leads to the optimal sequence. If temporal restrictions for the projects in the form of latest...

We study the scheduling of projects subject to general temporal constraints between activities such that the project net present value is maximized. The proposed algorithm is based on a first-order steepest ascent approach, where the steepest ascent directions are normalized by the supremum...

This study analyses the business strategies of entrepreneurs during a technological transition. The particular technological transition is the switch from analogue to digital TV in Thailand. The estimated net present values of the broadcasting operators’ net profit over a 15-year license...

This paper attempts a social cost-benefit analysis of scientific versus traditional shrimp farming in West Bengal, India. Using primary data, the paper shows that although intensive or scientific shrimp farming yields high returns as compared to traditional shrimp farming, when the opportunity...

The U.S. fresh winter tomato industry and Mexican tomato production have been engaged in a trade conflict since the early1970s. Given that tomato is the highest valued fresh vegetable item, the fresh tomato market in the U.S. is open for rent seeking actions of importers and domestic producers....

Leafroll disease is one of the most important virus diseases of grapevines worldwide. It reduces yields, delays fruit ripening, reduces soluble solids and increases titratable acidity in fruit juice. This study uses a Net Present Value (NPV) approach over a 25-year lifespan of a vineyard to...