These are measurable benefits that translate directly into lower costs of capital and higher returns on assets.
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That is because the growth costs of capital taxes are overestimated.
HSBC, who have global back offices and lower costs of capital.
Because I see low costs of capital for corporations persisting along with a low tax rate and below average ratio of employment costs, earnings seem secure even in a below normal GDP setting of 2 percent.
Public companies typically want to give as much information as possible to any investor who may wish to put money into them, because cumulatively this would increase their share prices and cut their costs of capital - which makes it cheaper for the companies themselves to invest and grow.
To address this question is to ask whether there is any long-term reason for businesses in one developed region to have different rates of return and costs of equity capital than a virtually identical group of businesses in other developed markets.
Almost all of the costs are in the capital costs of having the factory at all.
In other words, small banks will be disproportionately hurt by higher capital costs and scarcity of capital at a reasonable cost.
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The revelations of the Railtrack case risk scaring investors away and will raise the government's costs of raising capital and securing contracts.
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The costs of nuclear power produced by existing plants are likely to be far lower than the costs of newly built plants, because the capital costs of nuclear plants typically reflecting half to two-thirds the value of the project in present-value terms are long forgotten.
Some of my colleagues have observed the significant drop in capital costs of solar cells in recent years and concluded that the energy problem is solvable, if not essentially solved.
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The Parsons Brinckerhoff study didn't offer any estimate of the capital or operating costs of running the line to Secaucus.
Alas, the U.S. Treasury Department and the IMF continue to ply the deadly requirements of devaluation and higher taxes that will impede recovery because of the resulting inflation, higher capital costs and impoverishment of workers.
Among the areas being looked at for possible savings are a cut in management costs, a review of estates across the capital and IT costs.
According to Department of Energy researchers, factoring in capital costs, one kwh of power generated by a new solar installation costs on the order of 25 cents, even with existing incentives.
"It's a trade-off, " Mr. Zuppone said, and changes would likely raise trading costs and the cost of capital for companies.
Are the Quant-Pessimists right that demand for NGL cannot support the capital costs of extraction and bankruptcy for must extractors is imminent?
The subsidies, they say, are needed to defray the huge capital costs of their business, and also the fact that prices fluctuate so wildly.
Given the steep capital costs of energy storage systems, storage technologies must be able to perform multiple services across different parts of the energy value chain.
Third was a ruthless focus on profits in excess of capital costs within the foreseeable future as the success criteria for proposed investments of time or money.
According to Mr Thomas, the reactor could be a world-beater in terms of capital costs, operating performance and running costs, and yet still be more expensive than new gas-fired plants.
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If heavy goods vehicles had to meet the capital costs of the track, as rail freight has to do, they pay even less of their way only 59%, according to the Oxford study.
So, given all that background, if we wanted to lower rents we would want to have more housing built: clearly, more houses will mean lower capital costs of housing and thus lower rents.
The Department of Transport said the scheme, which will provide 75% of capital costs, was designed to deliver new stations which were sustainable in the long-term, so bidders must set out how the station will be operated, including staffing and maintenance implications.
Whenever any of my Anytown subscribers want to transfer files amongst themselves, the operating cost to me approaches zero because (aside from the capital costs of building the network), the cost of transfering those files is basically the electricity it takes to pulse lasers over the fiber and keep the fans on the routers humming.
But innovation in energy, transportation, health care and education has suffered too much stasis because of higher capital costs and regulatory burdens.
Jason Goldberg of Barclays Capital writes that the legislation's negative impact would come through fee reductions, higher costs of regulation and implementation and new restrictions, as well as tying up capital.
The main idea: Let others shoulder the capital and labor costs of building a car.
Yet the most rigorous estimates do not confirm this notion of uniformly falling capital costs for renewables.
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