The plan would open up the delivery of those benefits to a broad range of insurers, who would compete to offer those benefits at the most cost-efficient price.
We believe that online marketplaces hold an inherent advantage over traditional auction marketplaces because they have a larger number of participants, thus facilitating more efficient price discovery and greater liquidity.
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If markets were truly efficient, price-earnings ratios should be lower than average at the top of the cycle, since investors should anticipate a reversion to the mean.
After all, nobody thought recycling or more efficient appliances with higher price tags would ever catch on either.
If markets are efficient, the future price of these securities should be random.
From a national policy perspective, speculation provides the grease that encourages markets to be efficient and aids in price discovery by often providing the other side of the trade.
Rationing by price is more efficient because it allocates road space to those who value it most.
There is very little pressure on British gas to be efficient and to keep these price rises to a minimum.
Price rationing provides efficient allocation of our great gifts of nature in a system of conservation that any environmentalist should adore.
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How can such crazy swings in price be "efficient"?
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Developers who build power plants to sell power to utilities also might be willing to pay a higher price for more efficient solar panels, which allow them to construct projects with less land.
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Factor in the Kepler architecture's great efficiency and low thermal design power and the GTX 660 Ti assures gamers of having the most stable, quiet and power-efficient gaming experience possible in its price class.
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Which would certainly be a valid way of dealing with it: if you have to ration then rationing by price is indeed the most efficient manner of doing so.
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This was a more efficient way to produce in mass at low price points.
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But if the price were to come down because efficient cells could be made from cheap materials, that could change quickly.
The strategy effectively skips a whole cycle of traditional price drops as manufacturing gets more efficient, but trains a legion of customers to think that such a jump in value is completely normal and sustainable by most of the industry.
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Once teams of hard-working Japanese salesmen had prised open American and European markets in the 1970s, Western consumers were quickly won over by Japanese quality, design and price, whether in fuel-efficient cars or snazzy electronic gizmos, such as the Sony Walkman (for readers under 30: a portable machine that played music from tapes) or the Nintendo DS (for readers over 30: a gadget for playing video games).
In particular, they supply liquidity and price information that makes futures markets more efficient.
Price is the single most effective and efficient way to reduce consumption.
Ideally, politicians would choose the more efficient carbon tax, which implies a relatively stable price that producers can build into their investment plans.
Given the exchange traded liquidity and low overall expenses, we view SLV as an efficient way for investors to own exposure to the price of silver.
However, in view of its present high price, rhenium (used in highly fuel-efficient aircraft engines) is now recovered from scrap bimetallic catalysts used in the oil refining industry.
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Putting a price on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases would be an efficient way to reduce future emissions, encourage greener technologies, and reduce future risks of climate change.
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In an efficient market, such as that for shares or foreign exchange, such price rises would be moderated to some extent by other investors selling short (selling something for future delivery that they do not currently own, in the hope that they will be able to buy it more cheaply later).
The combination of state-led investment decisions in the emerging world and a parochial focus on price stability in the rich world produced serial asset bubbles rather than efficient capital allocation.
In a perfectly efficient market, splitting shares has no real impact on a company or its stock price.
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Moreover, the price advantage of natural gas over gasoline shrinks as cars become more fuel-efficient.
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If sales trends follow those set during the 2008 gas price crisis, then automakers will likely see a decrease in demand for fuel-efficient models once gas prices return to normal.
If there is an issue with price movement, surely governments around the world should look to stop blocking the most efficient methods of growing hardy crops that can stand up to weather extremes.
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In 2008, while automakers plodded along with the same old gas-guzzling models as the price at the pump hit record highs, American consumers scrambled for more fuel-efficient vehicles and left the gas-guzzlers to collect dust on the showroom floor.
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