This paper presents new evidence on the costs of purchasing private annuity contracts to spread a given stock of assets … are purchased through a large group retirement saving program, some of the administrative costs are lower than those in …

's opportunities to expand or contract are limited. Specifically consider costs of investing or disinvesting that vary with time, or …

frequency of disputes asymmetry of stakes, the structure of information, and costs. Compared to a random sample of" U.S. patents …

In this article, we estimate the costs of hiring, separation, and retirement of employees for a representative sample … costs are generally asymmetric (hiring is cheaper than terminations), increasing, and concave functions of the number of … entries or exits (either retirements or terminations). There is a fixed component to each of these costs that is related to …

This paper derives the dependency of optimal tariff and inflation tax on tax collection and enforcement costs. The … analysis is done for a small, open economy. The existence of such costs can justify tariff and inflation tax policies as … the costs of tax collection …

costs and quantities. Unfortunately, neither in ordinary language nor in the jargon of moral philosophy can such ultimate … desiderata as liberty and justice be related to costs or quantities. Hence in the first section we sketch a model of social …