The recommendations and actions in this Report have been carefully designed to help overcome these barriers and to leverage Recovery Act funding to help ensure that the energy efficiency market will thrive long after the Recovery Act money is fully spent.
Once we narrowed down our universe to exactly 400 companies, our editors and writers evaluated the leading companies in each industry on factors such as innovation, efficiency and market leadership.
SolarCity is moving to capture the home energy efficiency upgrade market the same way the Silicon Valley startup and its competitors turbocharged the market for residential rooftop solar panels: Financial engineering.
Both exchanges compete for the order flow that leads to reduced costs, market efficiency and innovation.
Currently, SunPower and Sanyo have the highest efficiency in the market, at almost 23%.
Whether these rules protected investors or improved overall market efficiency is a subject for debate.
My first encounter with the concept of market efficiency dates back to my first course in economics.
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Concluding, how do these numbers translate into actual telco profit markup on text service, to evaluate market efficiency?
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The size of spreads is not necessarily the only criterion of market efficiency.
Any attempt to reduce inequality would damage the efficiency of the market, impeding the rising tide that lifts all boats.
Theorizing was lacking about market efficiency and rational expectations, which together would lead to stability and the optimal allocation of resources.
Financial economists are studying the way that incentives can skew market efficiency.
Market efficiency appears to be generally true for most people although there are examples where people have consistently exploited pricing inefficiencies in the past.
Much of what economists know about structural unemployment has been gleaned from the sorry history of continental Europe, where fat benefits and rigid firing rules dulled labour-market efficiency.
And to many, the concept of market efficiency remains unquestioned.
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Whereas traditional market makers promote price and market efficiency, a firm like Goldman, as an active trader for its own account, can maximize its opportunity for profits by promoting price and market inefficiency.
On valuation, people always seem to be overly enamored with market value, which has puzzled me because as a private company, there is no liquid market on which to buy and sell shares, so a valuation is established without any degree of market efficiency.
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This explanation would be bad news for proponents of market efficiency, but would be consistent with the picture of overall stagnation in the VC-funded part of the tech industry, since the driver of low returns would still be the limited number of good new tech ventures.
Nobody doubts that electronic trading has the potential greatly to enhance the efficiency of the bond market.
Garmin already provides integrated cockpits to the aviation industry and is dedicated to bring a similar level of technology, integration, safety, reliability, and efficiency to the automotive market.
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Its chief advantage has been the power of many. eBay delivers the efficiency of a global market to buyers and sellers, no matter how small they might be, in a neatly packaged way.
On the demand side, it could promote market-led efficiency by encouraging real-time metering of all electricity use.
Many economists laud the market for its efficiency properties as free markets generally direct resources to their highest-valued ends while minimizing costs of production.
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It is clear then that many of the assumptions that under the efficiency of the cap weighted market portfolio are no longer valid in 2011.
The proliferation of city and state building energy efficiency codes, combined with the eagerness of building owners to seek LEED ratings, tells me that policymakers and the market are increasingly demanding energy efficiency in new construction.
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He says China needs to reform its regulatory regime to promote market competition and boost efficiency.
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In 2003, the government privatised J-Power in the hope that the rigours of the market would instil greater efficiency.
The report's main author, Richard Jolly, says: "The world is rushing headlong into greater integration, driven mostly by a philosophy of market profitability and economic efficiency".
In the past decade, HP has consistently taken measures to ensure profitability in the PC market through increased operational efficiency, expanded build-to-customer-order capabilities and supply chain improvements.
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Backed by complex mathematical models, they believed the path to economic growth and efficiency lay in letting the free market rip, with minimal interference from the state.
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