| On the other hand, the lower yield curve also implies a lower opportunity cost of waiting to invest, due to the lower short-term rate. |
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| The result of this is that any such marginal parcel of land will be sold at the market price determined by the opportunity cost of land. |
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| The approach recognizes a number of components of opportunity cost and relative disutility. |
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| This is true as far as it goes, but a vigorous application of opportunity cost reasoning reveals the fallacy of this argument. |
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| As incomes rise and the opportunity cost of performing menial labor changes, fewer people will want to work as servants. |
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| Correspondingly, the value of the forest is at least equal to this opportunity cost. |
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| But the opportunity cost is enormous. Developers normally have to obtain a licence for every buried body they wish to disinter. |
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| Ghana's loss includes both the training cost and the opportunity cost of understaffed health facilities. |
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| It has a huge opportunity cost on societies and on the global community through the productivity and the creativity that are forgone. |
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| Obviously, there is an opportunity cost to such tracking exercises, which are time and expertise consuming. |
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| But for every purchase the federal government makes it should consider one key concept and add the opportunity cost. |
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| First, we only value the leisure of the working age population, assuming that the opportunity cost for other parts of the population is zero. |
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| The opportunity cost of such a measure has thus been estimated at 3 billion dollars per year. |
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| The level of hidden subsidies can not be determined based on the opportunity cost of energy carriers at international prices. |
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| This can be construed as the opportunity cost of holding the option rather than holding the underlying asset. |
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| The benefit that a real property could generate, if put to its best alternative use, is defined as opportunity cost. |
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| The cost of capital of operators should reflect the opportunity cost of funds invested in network components and other related assets. |
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| First, the opportunity cost of the conflict, which is not widely appreciated. |
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| Gold held as reserves by a Central Bank has an opportunity cost. |
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| That's the opportunity cost of domestically produced software. |
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| In addition to the persistence of uncertainty in the stock markets, the low opportunity cost of holding money seemed to be driving monetary expansion during this period. |
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| Charges would cover handling, storage, insurance and processing costs, the opportunity cost of holding stocks of banknotes and the risk of accepting counterfeit banknotes. |
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| Generally this time of year, the opportunity cost of repairing roads in Namibia is the construction of new ones in different parts of Namibia. |
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| I repeat and the Finance Minister of India must know better that there is a huge opportunity cost to the Government of India. |
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| Mr Bolkestein, I share your concerns: we cannot afford to risk losing this directive, because the EU economy would pay the opportunity cost for years of not being able to restructure European companies. |
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| Australia, second exporter behind Brazil, has vast weakly populated spaces, characterized by a low opportunity cost, and where extensive breeding is thus the main economic use. |
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| The point I was making here was to use a colloquialism to say that Tony Abbott is rejecting and refusing to see the biggest challenge facing us and in so doing it's a massive opportunity cost to the country. |
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| It can also occur when the increase in uncertainty is large or the initial environment is one of low uncertainty, and the opportunity cost of waiting, rather than investing, is high. |
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| The other major cost that many people ignore is their opportunity cost. |
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| The concept of opportunity cost and the technique of cost-benefit analysis are not, however, applicable to situations where a total change in the entire educational or economic structure is contemplated. |
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| In such a case, the opportunity cost may be seen as the cost of a contribution to achieving the wider objective, rather than as simply a financial benefit foregone. |
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| Subsidies, in particular, generate benefits for households and businesses, but come at a heavy cost to the treasury both directly and in terms of the opportunity cost of not allocating the funds to alternative areas. |
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| This would attempt to put in place an approach to priority setting that is systematically applied, is fair, and is based on economic principles of opportunity cost and the margin. |
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| If there had been no overbudgeting, then the unforeseen expenditure must have entailed an opportunity cost, which raised the question of what other budgeted items had been sacrificed in order to fund the Task Force. |
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| It measures what an additional unit of one good costs in units forgone of the other good, an example of a real opportunity cost. |
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| Thus, if one more Gun costs 100 units of butter, the opportunity cost of one Gun is 100 Butter. |
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| When the opportunity cost is lower, the immigration rates tend to be higher. |
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| Firstly, donations may focus the public health community on interventions for which companies have cures – albeit donated ones – without sufficient consideration of cost effectiveness, opportunity cost or prioritisation. |
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| For a consumer with a fixed income, the opportunity cost of buying a new dishwasher might be the value of a vacation trip never taken or several suits of clothes unbought. |
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| The value of leisure per hour is measured by its opportunity cost, i.e., the wage foregone because a person engages in leisure rather than in paid work. |
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| Its opportunity cost may be another matter. |
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| And basically it was the opportunity cost. |
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| Later rounds represent a lower opportunity cost. |
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| For example, a case is made that when the benefits are those of consumption, as in the preservation of a park, the benefits involve no opportunity cost. |
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| The silver business proved not to be profitable due to the opportunity cost of keeping a large amount of capital tied up in the inventory of silver. |
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| We are realising now that the cost escalation is opportunity cost. |
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| This is where the potentially huge opportunity cost comes into play. |
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