Betekenis van:
opportunity cost
opportunity cost
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- cost in terms of foregoing alternatives
Hyperoniemen
Hyponiemen
Voorbeeldzinnen
- Major renovations of existing buildings, regardless of their size, provide an opportunity to take cost-effective measures to enhance energy performance.
- The high proportion of non avoidable costs [4] in BE’s cost structure in its nuclear power stations has also given it little opportunity to respond to lower prices by reducing costs.
- This was in turn reflected in the high interest rate which, in recognition of the business risks, was higher than the range put forward by the Government’s advisors for the appropriate opportunity cost of equity.
- Member States shall allow applicants for asylum the opportunity, at their own cost, to consult in an effective manner a legal adviser or other counsellor, admitted or permitted as such under national law, on matters relating to their asylum applications.
- they are related to another argument put forward by Italy regarding the opportunity cost associated with the impossibility of conducting active fund management, which is discussed, and rejected, in Section 7.4.3 of the present Decision;
- Regarding captive sales, the option for the Community industry to sell part of its production on the captive market provided it with the opportunity to maintain high levels of capacity utilisation. High capacity utilisation contributes to decrease cost of production because of economies of scale.
- In order to provide consumers with the opportunity of fully understanding their rights and obligations under the contract, they should be allowed a period during which they may withdraw from the contract without having to justify the withdrawal and without bearing any cost.
- To determine the efficient scale of an operator for the purposes of the cost model, NRAs should take into account that in fixed networks operators have the opportunity to build their networks in particular geographic areas and to focus on high-density routes and/or to rent relevant network inputs from the incumbents.
- Therefore, the imposition of any measure will be on the one hand, an opportunity for those processors to revise their prices somewhat upward, and on the other hand, to mix the most appropriate sources of supply so that their resulting average cost allow them to reach better profit levels.
- This sequence of investments brings important benefits to SEL, as it does not have the cost of investing in a costly greenfield magazine paper mill, there is no excessive capacity expansion and it contains a convenient opportunity to develop its technology base without incurring excessive financial or economic risk.
- The UK stated that the condition under which repayment could take place only after release of the pension escrow was a consequence of the subordinated nature of the loan. This was in turn reflected in the high interest rate which, in recognition of the business risks, was higher than the range put forward by the Government’s advisors for the appropriate opportunity cost of equity.
- Before presenting a much more detailed examination of the opportunity cost of the Obligation, […] indicates that the short-term interest rate that PI would have to pay on the market in exchange for the yield paid by the Treasury (a ‘constant maturity swap’) is six-month Euribor plus a spread of 0,43 %.
- improves on the old PM3 and the new PM3 improves on old PM2, the closure of PM2 and assets in Sweden and Finland avoiding overcapacity. This sequence of investments brings important benefits to SEL, as it does not have the cost of investing in a costly greenfield magazine paper mill, there is no excessive capacity expansion and it contains a convenient opportunity to develop its technology base without incurring excessive financial or economic risk.
- Secondly, the Commission doubted that the Region had acted as a market economy investor when it set up Fluorite di Silius, in order to have it bid for the mining concession, on the basis of a business plan with an internal rate of return of 3,5 % [9], which was clearly below the average for the industry [10], and below the opportunity cost to the investor measured by reference to State bonds [11].
- As a consequence of the substantial fall in electricity prices in the market in which BE operates coupled with BE’s lack of hedging and the unplanned power station outages, revenues generated by BE’s power stations decreased markedly during 2002. The high proportion of non avoidable costs [4] in BE’s cost structure in its nuclear power stations has also given it little opportunity to respond to lower prices by reducing costs.