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Why are University Endowments Large and Risky?
Gilbert, Thomas - 2015
We build a model of universities combining their real production decisions with their choice of endowment size and asset allocation. Variation in opportunity cost, that is, the productivity of internal projects, has a first-order effect on these choices. Adding the UPMIFA-mandated 7% payout...
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The Opportunity Costs of Environmental Exclusion Zones for Renewable Energy Deployment
Lehmann, Paul; Tafarte, Philip - 2023
Exclusion zones, like protected areas or setback distances, are the most common policy instrument to mitigate environmental impacts of human land-use, including the deployment of renewable energy sources. This paper aims to understand and quantify the drivers of opportunity costs related to...
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The opportunity costs of environmental exclusion zones for renewable energy deployment
Lehmann, Paul; Tafarte, Philip - Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - 2023
Exclusion zones, like protected areas or setback distances, are the most common policy instrument to mitigate environmental impacts of human land-use, including the deployment of renewable energy sources. While exclusion zones may provide environmental benefits, they may also bring about...
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In Search of Economic Rationality : Puzzles Related to Saving, Voting, and the Opportunity Costs of Time
Resnjanskij, Sven - 2016
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Sustainable value added : measuring corporate sustainable performance beyond eco-efficiency
Figge, Frank; Hahn, Tobias - 2002 - 2., rev. ed
This paper proposes a new approach to measure corporate sustainable performance called Sustainable Value Added. Value is created whenever benefits exceed costs. Current approaches to measure corporate sustainable performance take into account external costs caused by environmental and social...
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Evaluating alternatives to GDP as measures of social welfare/progress
Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den; Antal, Miklós - 2014
categories are considered, namely ISEW and GPI based on corrections of GDP, sustainable or green(ed) GDP, genuine savings …
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On measuring the social opportunity cost of public funds
Harberger, Arnold C. - 1971
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Retirement sorted? : the adequacy and optimality of wealth among the near-retired
Crawford, Rowena; O'Dea, Cormac - 2014
English couple households born in the 1940s. Here, 'optimal' wealth holdings are those that allow households to enjoy the same … calculate this level of wealth, and compare that with how much wealth households are observed to hold. We find that the majority … of households hold more wealth than our model suggests is optimal and that this would still be true even if housing …
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Buffer-stock saving and households' response to income shocks
Fella, Giulio; Frache, Serafin; Koeniger, Winfried - 2016
We use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a rather unique dataset with a long time dimension of panel … information on consumption, income and wealth, to structurally estimate a buffer-stock saving model. We exploit the information … contained in the joint dynamics of income, consumption and wealth to quantify the degree of insurance against income risk. The …
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