Sentence examples for hypothetical costs from inspiring English sources

Second, the hypothetical costs and rewards used may not be relevant or valuable to children.

In contrast to the usual formulation, however, the hypothetical costs of the proposed policies were formulated as a percentage change in taxes.

The benefit of this formulation relative to the usual absolute money amounts is that the credibility of the (hypothetical) costs for respondents does not depend on respondent income.

Finally, in order to evaluate the economic impact of decision changes, a health technology assessment was performed comparing the hypothetical costs arising from decisions made with and without the multigene signature.

Therefore, research to test for a possible difference between the influence of hypothetical costs and financial rewards on the hypothetical willingness and the participation rates of such lifestyle intervention programmes in real life, is needed.

Others may use a "shadow price" – a hypothetical cost applied to CO2 within a company.

The Commission then again repeated its insistence that cost computed under such a formula as Plan 2 'is a hypothetical cost and not an actual cost,' ibid.; that in other mail-pay proceedings consideration had been given to other factors; 23 and, again taking such factors into account, concluded upon the augmented record that the rates then applicable to the carrier were fair and reasonable.

Joerres measures himself and the senior executives by subtracting a hypothetical cost of capital from EBIT.

The SEC watered down the rules so funds still can bury the hypothetical cost per $1,000 invested.

An important study by Bertola et al. (2012) focuses on firms' reactions to hypothetical cost-push shocks: either an unanticipated increase in the cost of an intermediate input or an unanticipated permanent increase in wages.

In this paper, rather than looking at a firm's response to a hypothetical cost shock, we concentrate on its actual response during the Great Recession's initial phase in Europe from the start of the crisis (third quarter of 2008) through mid-2009.