Everyone, it seems, is sweating the potential for higher costs.
"In many respects it works a lot like other situations where someone has a condition that will foreshadow the potential for higher costs going forward," Ms. Pisano said.
Informal payments that occur in the health system are a further potential reason for high costs.
The potential for high-cost complications associated with RBC transfusion as well as the high cost of adverse events associated with ESA use should be considered by policy makers when determining the appropriate reimbursement policy for chronic dialysis patients.
The assumed costs of managing non-shareholding stakeholders' interests will moderate the relationship between stakeholder management and (potential) investors' investment intentions, such that for high costs, investment intentions will be higher when companies prefer shareholding stakeholders, whereas for low costs, they will be higher when companies prefer non-shareholding stakeholders.
Finally, for high cost, high potential measures, there may be different situations.
At the same time, most people are paying a lot of attention to the potential for higher input costs and the impact of those costs on their margins.
"But there is a potential for higher labor costs".
Yet over recent weeks, AMR found itself in an increasingly difficult position, confronted by economic uncertainty, the potential for higher fuel costs and a credit rating downgrade by Standard & Poor's two weeks ago.
Howard Archer, chief economic adviser to the EY Item Club forecasting group, said 2018 would be "a very challenging year" for the housing market, partly because buyers would be concerned about the potential for higher mortgage costs, after the Bank of England raised interest rates for the first time in a decade in November and indicated that further increases were likely.
Revived interest in nuclear power, experts say, is being driven by a combination of strong growth in electric demand, high prices for natural gas and the potential for imposing higher costs on climate-changing carbon dioxide emissions, which would make coal use more expensive.
