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Showing 1 to 20 of 127 for “"Opportunity cost"”.
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Comparison of relative net income with and without the application of opportunity cost
… the impact of adjusting measures of profit for opportunity cost and for evaluating the impact of herd-year variables and registry status on measures of profit. Relative Net Income (RNIJ) and RNI including opportunity cost (RNIOC), the revenue forfeited that could have been generated by a …
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Limited Means and What I Can't Buy: Resource Constraints and Resource Use Accessibility Drive Opportunity Cost Consideration
<p>Every consumer decision incurs a cost. An hour spent researching products is an hour not spent working. Vacation days used in the winter are vacation days not used in the summer. A dollar spent on a car payment is a dollar not spent dining out. What determines the extent to which consumers …
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Opportunity Cost of Student Loan Debt Forgiveness: Testing the Impact of Four Policy Options on United States’ Economy
<p>Nearly 45 million Americans are trapped in a student loan debt. In total they owe more than $1.75 trillion. Research shows that such a high amount of debt harms the U.S. economy in several ways, preventing anything from small business development to new house purchases, and even weddings and …
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Pricing of domestically consumed oil in Iran
… for optimal pricing of oil products based on the opportunity cost of the oil consumed in Iran were introduced in order to control and moderate the current rate of increase in demand for oil, thereby securing a longer availability of oil for both domestic consumption and export purposes. The …
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Income Taxation, Hours of Work, and Non-Monetary Job Characteristics
… assumed that the wage rate measures the opportunity cost of an hour of work. This is not necessarily true if jobs differ in their non-monetary characteristics. The theoretical analysis develops a competitive economic model that uses the concept of a compensating wage differential to …
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Air pollution, avoidance behaviors, and neglected social costs : evidence from outdoor leisure and commuting behaviors
The social cost of air pollution depends on both its biophysical impacts on health and productivity and the dynamic avoidance behaviors citizens proactively adopt. The literature has almost exclusively focused on the direct impacts, and the limited research looking into the avoidance behaviors has …
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Macroeconomic determinants of the demand for international reserves and monetary disequilibrium in Namibia
… money, foreign direct investment, real GDP and opportunity cost. The significant finding on opportunity cost is an indication that the accumulation of reserves is motivated by returns to assets in Namibia. Focusing on the main thrust of the study, we failed to validate the existence of the …
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Targeting Seasonal Marketing Campaigns: Rebalancing Exploration and Exploitation
… firm has a targeting policy, the firm incurs an opportunity cost when varying its action to learn how to improve that policy. This results in what is classically considered an exploration vs. exploitation tradeoff. This tradeoff is widely studied in online learning domains. However, firms are …
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Household fuelwood production and consumption in the Nepal's tarai and mid-hills: an econometric analysis and its policy implications
… elasticities are also estimated with respect to opportunity cost of labor, fuelwood price, income, resource stock and access, and demographic variables. The results suggest that rural households produce and consume fuelwood according to the opportunity cost of their labor and market fuel wood …
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Dynamic, personalized discrete choice incentive allocation to optimize system performance
… is essential for achieving goals for the least cost. I examine how a model that is aware of the utility function of each choice and for each user in a system can optimally allocate incentives in real time while considering opportunity cost, personalized incentive response behavior, and …
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Economic Analysis of Recapturing and Recycling Irrigation Techniques on Horticulture Nurseries
… can generate significant savings relative to the costs of alternative water sources and potentially reduce non-point source pollution. However, obtaining these savings may also incur substantial risk and capital cost outlays. Disease risk may increase in nurseries that implement recapturing and …
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Race, income, and benefits from national parks
… by allowing them access at little or no cost. However, recently there has been discussion as to whether or not this is still the case. The existing literature has a gap regarding how demand for national parks varies by race, and how that variation is driven by differences in income, …
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Essays in Political Economy and Public Policy
… enterprise sectors. I also find that a higher opportunity cost of public funds tends to reduce the extent of state ownership except when commitment capability and pressure for employment control are low.
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Essays on Public Choice
… candidates differ in their competence and opportunity cost. They observe the wage, decide whether to enter as candidates, and if they do, how hard to campaign for winning the election. A higher wage makes more able candidates to enter, while both able and inept candidates campaign harder …
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Risk adjusted asset valuation using a probabilistic approach with optimized asking rents and resale timing options
… uses the forecasted cap rates and consequent opportunity cost of capital to arrive at optimal asking rents for the subject property. The existing rent roll is combined with the future rents and vacancies along with asset level projections of operating costs and capital expenditures to arrive …
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Essays on Rural-Urban Migration in China
… migration's effects on household income and the opportunity cost of schooling in rural China. The opportunity cost of schooling is approximated by the marginal productivity of children imputed from family production estimation, which controls for potential endogeneity in the time allocation …
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Optimal execution for portfolio transactions
… or transition between asset managers. The costs of rebalancing can be broadly broken into trading costs (both the transaction cost and the market impact) and the opportunity costs of delaying the execution and bearing the risk of current-to-target portfolio divergence. This thesis proposes …
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The nexus between financial innovations and velocity of money: Evidence from Namibia
… also included two control variables GDP and the opportunity cost of holding money as the theoretical foundation nominate the two variables to also affect money demand which eventually affects velocity of money. The results found that a positive relationship existed between the GDP variable and …
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Estudio de prefactibilidad para el establecimiento de una planta embotelladora de agua tónica
… market in relation with the discount rate of the opportunity cost of capital (17%). In Peru, the market for mixers has been growing strongly, including tonic water. A wide variety of these mixers is consumed in cocktails. However, the vast majority of these are of foreign origin (imported), so the …
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Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Exploring the Lived Experiences of College Students Who Do Not Request Accommodations
… and environment. including the principle of opportunity cost. Recommendations for college administrators and faculty, including Universal Design in higher education are included.</p>
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