Sentence examples for constant discount from inspiring English sources

Lehman Brothers gave Livedoor the money in exchange for "death spiral" convertible bonds, which give Lehman the right to convert the bonds into shares at a constant discount to the share price.

The bundling of flows allows reduction in the transportation costs, which is frequently modeled using a constant discount factor that is applied to the flow cost associated with all interhub links.

It then investigates whether these parameters can successfully predict smoking status, including cigarette dependence, based on a quasi-hyperbolic discount function, where the parameter β denotes present bias and δ is the standard exponential (constant) discount factor.

Future health effects are discounted at a constant discount ratio of 1.5% per year.

Costs are discounted at a constant discount rate of 4% per year.

Such a relationship conflicts with the discount utility model's assumption of a constant discount rate, and is a characteristic of hyperbolic models.

If startups achieve this, they can maintain pricing power and even charge a premium, instead of the usual marketing barrage of constant discounts, promotions, and margin-squeezing offers.

k is a constant discounting the cost of premature termination, to take into account mechanisms of cost reduction such as nonsense-mediated mRNA decay or a selectively maintained deficit of near-stops in coding sequences.

It also points to a menagerie of functional forms to characterize different types of non-constant discounting behavior.

We re-evaluate the theory, experimental design and econometrics behind claims that individuals exhibit non-constant discounting behavior.

We find no evidence to support quasi-hyperbolic discounting or "fixed cost" discounting, and only modest evidence to support other specifications of non-constant discounting.