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On the opportunity cost of nontradable stock options
Moretto, Michele; Rossini, Gianpaolo - 2001
Firms grant to their employees non-tradable stock options as an incentive device. Is the opportunity cost of issuing these options equal to the amount the company would receive if it sold the same options to outside investors? No, it is not, since the options granted to employees are non...
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Trade-offs between justices, economics, and efficiency
Baumgärtner, Stefan; Glotzbach, Stefanie; Hoberg, Nikolai - 2011
We argue that economics - as the scientific method of analyzing trade-offs - can be helpful (and may even be indispensable) for assessing the trade-off between intergenerational and intragenerational justice. Economic analysis can delineate the opportunity set of politics with respect to the two...
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The Economic Opportunity Cost of Capital for Canada - An Empirical Update
Jenkins, Glenn; Kuo, Chun-Yan - 2007
The social or economic discount rate is the threshold rate used to calculate the net present value of an investment project, a program, or a regulatory intervention to see whether the proposed expenditures are economically worthwhile to undertake. The size of the economic rate of discount has...
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GDP and the value of family caretaking: How much does Europe care?
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; … - 2010
This study estimates the size and value of unpaid family caretaking activities at a European level. While at a country level several studies are available, a comprehensive evaluation for Europe as a whole was missing so far, mainly due to data limitations. This paper fills this gap using a...
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Time-bound opportunity costs of informal care: Consequences for access to professional care, caregiver support, and labour supply estimates
Hassink, Wolter; van den Berg, Bernard - 2011
Patterns of informal care are documented throughout the day with Dutch time use diary data. The diary data enable us to identify a, so far overlooked, source of opportunity costs of informal care, i.e. the necessity to perform particular tasks of informal care at specific moments of the day....
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It's the opportunity cost, stupid!: How self-employment responds to financial incentives of return, risk and skew
Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; van Praag, Mirjam - 2011
There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We offer a focus on the opportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee. Information on...
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Sectoral Transformations in Neo-Patrimonial Rentier States: Tourism Development and State Policy in Egypt
Richter, Thomas; Steiner, Christian - 2007
economic development. The analysis of the rise of tourism in Egypt during the last three decades suggests that the effects of …
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When Do Autocracies Start to Liberalize Foreign Trade? Evidence from Four Cases in the Arab World
Richter, Thomas - 2010
procurement. A longitudinal comparison of four countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan) in the Middle East and North Africa …
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Technological Readiness in the Middle East and North Africa – Implications for Egypt
Brach, Juliane - 2010
innovative potential in Egypt. …
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CBAM, Hydrogen Partnerships and Egypt's Industry: Potential for Synergies
Gritz, Alexandra; Wolff, Guntram B. - In: Intereconomics 59 (2024) 2, pp. 92-97
This article examines the hydrogen partnerships between Germany, the EU and Egypt in the context of the EU's Carbon … Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). Germany, the largest future hydrogen importer in the EU, and Egypt, a country with an … ambitious hydrogen strategy, are developing a partnership to boost renewable hydrogen production in Egypt. However, high funding …
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