Meanwhile, financial repression lowered the cost of capital.

Information technologies are a cost effective form of capital.

Higher transactions taxes increase the cost of capital, ultimately lowering investment.

The key is to reflect on six kinds of capital goods business capital, infrastructure, human capital, intellectual capital, natural capital, and social capital.

Environmentally safe nanotechnology will come at a cost in time, money, and political capital.

According to the European Commission, creating a single European capital market would reduce the cost of equity capital for EU businesses by 0.5 and lower the cost of corporate debt financing by 0.4 .

Common Sense on Capital Controls

Distortions in key prices that favor capital intensive manufacturing need to be removed by raising the cost of land, energy, water, and capital.

The cost of services compared to the cost of goods depends on productivity.

On the cost side of the business, we have fixed and variable cost.

Doing so would lower the cost of capital on loans from the European Investment Bank and give a boost to European technology companies.

Regulators take the view that the impact of higher capital requirements on the cost of credit to borrowers will be modest, as the overall cost of funds to banks will not rise much.

In issuing contingent capital, banks would have to pay a higher interest rate than they would on ordinary long term debt, because debt investors will face the true cost of capital, not the government subsidized cost. Over time, however, the interest rate premium is likely to be small, because higher capital requirements and contingent capital should significantly reduce the likelihood of ever reaching the triggers.

Indeed, investment banks like Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital are already inventing new types of securities to reduce the capital cost of holding risky assets.

The cost of petrol keeps on going up.

CHICAGO Global capital is on the move.

Today s historically low interest rates should encourage long term investment, as they lower the current cost of capital.

Similarly, banks would have incentives to game capital adequacy requirements by manipulating how capital and assets are defined. Indeed, investment banks like Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital are already inventing new types of securities to reduce the capital cost of holding risky assets.

The result is an increase in the cost of capital to firms, which lowers investment and exacerbates the crisis.

Arguments about effectiveness here frequently focus on cost effectiveness.

The IMF Needs Fresh Thinking on Capital Controls

They rest their case on the famous Modigliani Miller theorem, which implies that a company cannot alter its capital cost by changing the balance between equity and debt on its balance sheet.

The weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is the rate that a company is expected to pay on average to all its security holders to finance its assets.

Taxes levied on executive bonuses have cost international banks dearly.

The G 20 s Helpful Silence on Capital Controls

Typing capital letters on a computer is somewhat tedious.

Its capital is Honolulu on the island of Oahu.

Merchandise needn t pass through the capital, as it does in most Latin American and Caribbean countries, with the associated cost increases.

Indeed, in many countries, exaggerated fears of deflation are keeping interest rates depressed and the cost of capital at historic lows.

In a well functioning economy, one would have expected the low cost of capital to be the basis of healthy growth.

The attacks on America of September 2001 cost several thousand lives.

I ask Why? On what grounds should it cost that much?

The estimates of net salaries are based on standard cost rates.

On the other hand, they cost more and require careful maintenance.

Russia, it is widely believed, can rely on domestic capital.

Nor, on balance, has liberalization of capital flows stabilized consumption.

Prudential controls on capital flows make a lot of sense.

Simply put, when the state seizes the incentives and drivers of capital investment, owners of capital go on strike.

Keeping those loans on the books would have meant that a bank would have had to incur a large capital adequacy provision and monitor the loans performance, at a cost to itself.

The model advocated by Western Europe and embraced by Eastern Europe has been based on the idea that capital should flow from capital rich to capital poor countries.

Due to significant labour cost differences (salaries) there is pressure on prices.

The annual cost?

Cost benefit analysis.

3.1 Indicative cost

At any cost!