An Update on Cost and Scale-Up Factors, International Inflation and Location Factors

Authors

Donald S. Remer, Harvey Mudd CollegeFollow
Steve Lin '06, Harvey Mudd College
Nancy Yu '07, Harvey Mudd College
Karen Hsin '06, Harvey Mudd College

Student Co-author

HMC Undergraduate

Document Type

Article

Department

Engineering (HMC)

Publication Date

2008

Abstract

This paper updates and expands upon a previous study [Remer, D.S., Mattos, F.B., 2003. Cost and scale-up factors, international inflation indexes and location factors. International Journal of Production Economics 84, 16] on cost and location factors used in the US and internationally. The current study includes 47 US cost and location factors and 30 international cost and location factors for 12 countries. In addition, cost scale-up factors for a wide variety of equipment, plants, and processes from air pollution abatement to waste-to-energy facilities to commercial airplanes are presented. This study reviews the use of these indexes and scale-up factors, and presents caveats for their use.

Rights Information

© 2013 Elsevier B.V.

DOI

10.1016/j.ijpe.2008.02.011

Recommended Citation

Donald S. Remer, Steve Lin, Nancy Yu, Karen Hsin, An update on cost and scale-up factors, international inflation indexes and location factors, International Journal of Production Economics, Volume 114, Issue 1, July 2008, Pages 333-346, ISSN 0925-5273, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2008.02.011. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925527308000844)