, cost of coal purchases among coal-fired power plants using a panel data set from 1991 to 2005. Our study focuses … percent decrease in unit cost of heat input, and (3) a lower capacity factor even after adjusting for cross-plant generation … re-allocation due to cost reductions. Based on these estimates, back-of-the-envelope calculations find that restructuring …

episodes of financial distress and they also have an incentive to increase risk to exploit the cost-of-funds subsidy of … relationship to size requires untangling cost and profit from decisions about risk versus expected-return because both cost and … higher levels of risk-taking. Studies of banking cost that ignore endogenous risk-taking find little evidence of scale …

studies were of moderate to high quality. Spontaneous vaginal delivery cost patients and health systems between USD 6-52 and … maternal hemorrhage they range between USD 65-196 and USD 30-127, respectively. Patient cost for caring low-birth weight babies … ranges between USD 38-489 while the health system cost was estimated to be USD 514. Conclusion: This is the first systematic …

enhancing than the competitive and public service policy alternatives, due to higher cost-reducing effects, stronger private …