Information technologies are a cost effective form of capital.

As above, firm value is enhanced when, and if, the return on capital exceeds the cost of capital.

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

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.

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

South African firms have used their relatively lower cost of capital to invest in other African countries where capital markets were not developed.

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.

So in fact, we can go, using operational budget, we can sorry, capital cost we can actually achieve what was no longer achievable in operational cost.

While the right policies cannot eliminate risk, they can ameliorate the cost benefit tradeoff from capital flows.

The banks claim that higher capital requirements and other regulations will drive up the cost of credit.

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

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

To manage exorbitant demand for financial and physical assets, China s leaders must address its root cause the low cost of capital.

The discount rate used is generally the appropriate weighted average cost of capital (WACC), that reflects the risk of the cashflows.

Thus, it is not a good idea to run persistent current account deficits and become dependent on (temporarily) low cost foreign capital.

Those who are willing to engage often demand steep risk premiums that dramatically increase the cost of capital, often to usurious levels.

To the extent that some of the lower cost is rebated to their clients, even industrial firms in Germany enjoy a lower cost of capital, giving them an unfair advantage vis à vis their European competitors.

Recognizes that the cash payment option, based on a one time assessment or multi year special assessments, would be the simplest and the most cost effective approach for meeting the cost of the capital master plan

1 The amount required to bring the working capital reserve up to 8.3 per cent of the total annual programmes cost plus overhead.

Liquidity injections and low interest rates have a microeconomic effect that has received little attention they lower the cost of capital vis à vis the cost of labor, which causes a relative decline in demand for labor.

The region s economies are now cooling and incomes are flattening, and low cost capital inflows will no longer encourage public and private sector consumption.

Firms, especially in sectors sheltered from international competition, have retained market power and have increased prices in response to the rising cost of capital.

5. Calls upon the Secretary General to ensure that the preparation of a comprehensive design plan and detailed cost analysis for the capital master plan will identify all viable alternatives in the most cost effective and efficient manner

(c) As the balance of payments deteriorated, especially after interruptions of capital inflows and sometimes massive flights of capital, the national currency was sharply devalued. This sharp devaluation increased further the cost of debt servicing and the debt to GDP ratio.

The good times were also buoyed by easier access to low cost capital, much of which has come in the wake of the global financial crisis.

The higher growth tends to be associated with an investment boom, which in turn seems to be propelled by the lower cost of capital for firms.

Then came a strategic decision by all the Shia groups to defend Assad whatever the cost, said a regional ambassador previously based in the Syrian capital.

The capital cost of repairing them would amount to approximately 9,420,000, equivalent to an annual cost of 1,884,000 over a period of five years, which the country has not been able to assume owing to the limits on resources resulting from the embargo.

Or perhaps the low cost of international capital will entice the US to absorb some of the world s excess savings, triggering a new period of global expansion.

The first is re regulation of advanced countries financial systems with a view to ensuring greater stability without impairing essential functions or unnecessarily elevating the cost of capital.

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

Furthermore, the construction of an off site non governmental organization resource centre and an off site mail processing facility project, at a total cost of 2,650,000, while not being part of the capital master plan will be implemented concurrently with the capital master plan implementation.

In addition, other factors, including investment, increases in financial capital and new trade opportunities, including those created by expatriates may more than offset this cost to the home economy.

Relative to the recent past, the cost of capital will increase, debt will be more expensive and less ubiquitous, and risk spreads will not return to pre crisis compressed levels.

The Board is again concerned that further extension of the design phase may result in further delays in the overall implementation of the capital master plan, with increased cost implications.

As a result, the cost of capital in the US will soar, discouraging investment and reducing consumption spending as high interest rates depress the value of households principal assets their houses.

Sharp rises in sovereign, corporate, and interbank liquidity spreads will increase the cost of capital, and increases in risk aversion, volatility, and sovereign risk will undermine business, investor, and consumer confidence further.

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.

Saving three innocent lives for every person executed seems like a very attractive trade off, and even two lives saved per execution seems like a persuasive benefit cost ratio for capital punishment.

Government stabilization of the banking system can either be international, provoking complaints by outraged taxpayers about subsidizing others, or national, but only at the cost of greatly extended regulation of capital movements.

Full cost recovery for major sewage works including capital costs through user charges is often difficult, if not impossible, in many developing countries, especially where a high proportion of users are poor.

Nor do these findings suggest that capital controls have no costs. For example, as the MIT economist Kristin Forbes has documented, they increase the cost of financing for small and medium size companies.

Indeed, the Basel Committee plans to require more capital in the future, though the new requirements will be delayed, owing to concerns about the cost and availability of credit to sustain the recovery.

Cost

And so with patient capital from Acumen and other organizations, loans and investments that will go the long term with them, they built a low cost housing development, about an hour outside Nairobi central.