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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"opportunity costs"”.
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Opportunity costs of trade-related capacity development in Sub-Saharan Africa
… capacity building initiatives and evaluates the opportunity cost of different trade-related capacity building policy mixes. Trade-related technical assistance and capacity building was recognized in 2001 by the World Trade Organisation Doha Ministerial Declaration as a core element of the …
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Airline alliance revenue management : improving joint revenues through partner sharing of flight leg opportunity costs
… merging. Partners share information about the opportunity costs to their network, called "bid prices", of selling a seat on their own flight leg, a mechanism termed bid price sharing (BPS). Results show that BPS methods often improve revenues and work best for networks with certain …
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Limited Means and What I Can't Buy: Resource Constraints and Resource Use Accessibility Drive Opportunity Cost Consideration
… the extent to which consumers consider such opportunity costs when making decisions?</p><p>Although every purchase requires an outlay cost (i.e., spending dollars in order to obtain a good), outlay costs only have economic significance because some other good or service must be given up as a …
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Evaluating the feasibility of improvement thinnings for fuelwood for private non-industrial landowners in Virginia
… was greatly influenced by haul distance and his opportunity cost for time spent harvesting wood. Other considerations included the market price for both firewood and firewood stumpage. Two cases were analyzed using discounted cash flows, the first considered the landowner as a firewood consumer. …
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A case and comparative study of citizen hunting in the Charara/Makuti study area : allocating Zimbabwe's protected area resources efficiently and equitably
… A second investigation determined whether the opportunity costs of this allocation method could be justified in the context of Zimbabwe's current socio-economic development priorities. The Department of National Parks and Wild Life Management (DNPWLM) is the government agency responsible for …
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Addressing Health Equity in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: A Review of Distributional and Extended Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
… health policies; and third, the incorporation of opportunity costs. ECEA can analyse financial risk protection while DCEA can analyse opportunity costs and trade-offs between improving equity and reducing health. ECEA is designed for low- and middle-income countries, whereas DCEA is better suited …
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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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An economic analysis of industrial disputation in Australia
… is shorter. Important determinants of the opportunity costs of wage demands to employees, are wage losses of retrenched employees during unemployment and in subsequent re-employment. Critical in the union's decision to threaten a strike or a non-strike action, is a permanent loss of market …
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From cost-effectiveness to economic-efficiency in conservation planning: the importance of considering the economic benefits of conservation
… a spatial cost benefit analysis of the opportunity costs and ecosystem service benefits associated with conservation. Additional scenarios assessed how reserve design and costs changed when communal-land agriculture and resource use were weighted to account for the social costs of …
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Role and procedures of natural resources accounting (NRA) : an NRA framework for Botswana
… if the accounting prices used reflect full opportunity costs i.e. correct for externalities.
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Adapting Protected Area Networks to the Impacts of Climate Change: Potential Options for the Sub-Saharan Africa Important Bird Area (IBA) Network
… land-areas. Finally, I incorporated economic opportunity costs of land into the RSAs to assess how to adapt the network to climate change in the most economical way. The results showed that while some areas of Africa will undergo a large reduction in their importance to a complementarity-based …
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Evaluation of product support sources
… resolution process, as well as minimize the opportunity costs and financial costs of product support sources.
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Trade in Shadow ASEAN-China Trade Relations amidst South China Sea Conflicts
… Moravcsik, 1997). It does so by increasing the opportunity costs of escalation and by embedding state behavior within institutional frameworks that reward cooperation. Yet, despite long theoretical debate, the empirical stance of conflict-trade relations remains contested. The relations between …
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Focusing on the big picture: How widening attention decreases spending
… whether participants are more likely to consider opportunity costs, have an abstract construal, feel financial scarcity, or experience negative emotion, compared to the control condition. However, no significant mediating measure was identified. Future plans for additional research are discussed.
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Order Fulfillment Algorithms for Online Retail
… arcs. To minimize the total transportation costs for order fulfillment, the online retailer should plan its transportation capacities properly in advance and execute according to the transportation plan by making smart fulfillment decisions. To fulfill a customer order, the online retailer …
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When job dissatisfaction leads to customer-oriented citizenship behaviors
… promotion-based, reciprocity-based), while the costs are decreased (i.e., opportunity costs). Utilizing a sample of 127 frontline employees from both the financial services and travel agency industries, the hypothesized relationships are empirically supported using moderated hierarchical …
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Social optimality in land use: a comparative study of conservation and agriculture in the Sundays River Valley, Eastern Cape, South Africa
… dissertation explores the direct and indirect costs of expanding the land area set aside for conservation in the Sunday’s River Valley of the Eastern Cape. While many parks have been located in zones of low commercial value, either deliberately, to cut opportunity cost conservation, or through …
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Further developing NPV analysis to evaluate real estate investment opportunities
… which this paper is based is using risk-adjusted opportunity costs of capital to discount cash flows of varying levels of risk. The cases presented in this paper are included to illustrate the usefulness of the methodologies to evaluate real estate investments; thus, more attention should be given …
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Inbound container queuing optimization model for distribution centers
… received at a distribution center and there are opportunity costs associated with selecting the wrong container to receive, namely, that the distribution center will become filled with product which is not immediately needed to meet outbound demand. This thesis analyzes one method of receiving …
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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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