the principles of Corwin. The result — as one would expect when costs are raised and benefits are reduced — has been that …

the proper goal of a decision-making process, one must compare the error costs of false-positive outcomes and false …-negative outcomes. If error costs are symmetric, then the decision-making process should be designed to minimize the total risk of error …. However, if error costs are asymmetric, then the decision-making process should be designed to minimize the more costly type …

asset class has become less costly over time. We define costs as the difference between gross and net returns (return spread …-based fees, surprisingly, the cost of PE investing has increased. We relate the higher costs to increased levels of dry powder …

It is often said that the private sector is in a good position to manage project costs and meet deadlines, but not … a portfolio of risky investments dedicated to the future repayment of the debt. It goes without saying that other …

. Any bias in provided cost information is supposed to lead to sub-optimal decisions, however, this is true only if a …

We estimate firm-specific marginal cost of debt functions for a large panel of companies between 1980 and 2007. The … marginal cost curves are identified by exogenous variation in the marginal tax benefits of debt. The location of a given … company's cost of debt function varies with characteristics such as asset collateral, size, book-to-market, asset tangibility …