Because brand extensions reduce consumer risk and significantly lower the cost of introductory marketing programs, they have become, over the past two decades, the predominant new product strategy.
In particular, to the extent that benefit extensions reduce job finding by UI-eligible individuals, this may open up available jobs for UI-ineligible individuals, whose job finding rate will rise.
This and related changes in their state UI laws caused the state to lose eligibility for the federal extensions, reducing total available UI weeks to 19, as reflected in the minimum weeks plot near the end of the sample frame in Panel A of Figure 1.
Such reductions could occur through reduced demand for final goods (for instance by life extension), reduced demand for material use in each product (for instance by lightweight design) or reduced demand for material to make existing products.
The ongoing subprime mess has dampened home sales and by extension, reduced demand for home improvement products.
If we forget for a moment that the poor and middle class suffer taxes on the rich the most (reduced investment, and by extension, reduced work opportunities), our present tax system in a sense makes it possible for politicians to raise taxes in stealth fashion.
Both patients exhibited limitation of neck extension, reduced superior gaze, pursed lips and swallowing difficulties.
We observed reduced Emr1 transcription following TGF-β3 treatment, inferring reduced macrophage infiltration and, by extension, reduced TGF-β1 trafficking.
Other benefits include an increased capacity in assessment clinics to accommodate age extension, reduced patient anxiety, better team working and a complimentary reduction in recall rates for incident round women.
Constant pressure for the next line extension reduces the resources available for significant new product development.
