The New Keynesian Phillips Curve (NKPC), driven by unit labor costs has been criticized for failing to match inflation … the fit of the NKPC, by introducing a fuller marginal cost proxy, "unit total costs", that is derived from both labor and … non-labor unit costs; the latter includes capital-related costs and production taxes. Borrowing costs are examined …

Japanese firms operating in both their home countries and emerging economies. About the cost structure, costs depending on … quantity and quality(named gproduction costs h) and those depending only on quality (named gR&D costs h) are discussed. With … production and R&D costs, three types of costs are examined. Type 1 costs have no R&D costs. Type 2 costs have both, and R …

Our paper provides a comprehensive report of empirical research on tax compliance costs. Compared to previous reviews …, our focus is on average costs for sub-groups (individual taxpayers, small businesses, large businesses) and the … composition of the cost burden with regards to different cost components (in-house time effort, external adviser costs, other …

the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) method. The study revealed that three major categories of manufacturing costs affect the … overall productivity of manufacturing companies; viz, raw materials, labour and overhead costs. This study established that … the ability or inability of manufacturing companies to properly control and minimize these costs has a direct bearing on …

This paper studies the welfare consequences of a vertical merger that raises rivals costs when downstream competition … is à la Cournot between firms with constant asymmetric marginal costs. The main result is that such a vertical merger can …

true long run marginal cost of production. The result has applications both to the theory of calculating efficient prices … under cost-based regulation and to the theory of how for-profit firms use accounting data to organize and guide their …