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Marginal Cost: the amount by which the costs of a firm will be increased if its output is increased by one more unit, or if one more customer is served.Example: If the...; Marginal Cost definition on BNET »

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The Trick Is to Live: Is the Estate Tax Social Security for the Rich?: The paper reveals that since the estate tax liability usually depends on how long one lives, it implicitly provides annuity income. Calculations of the annuity embedded in the U.S. estate tax show that people with $10 million of assets may be effectively receiving more than $100,000 a year financed at...; Tags: National Bureau Of Economic Research, Marginal Cost, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance; White papers 2002-09-01
Pricing, Production, And Persistence: Though built with increasingly precise microfoundations, modern optimizing sticky price models have displayed a chronic inability to generate large and persistent real responses to monetary shocks. This is an ironic finding, since Taylor [1980] and other researchers were motivated to study sticky price models in part by the objective of...; Tags: Marginal Cost, Pricing Strategy, Federal Reserve Bank Of Philadelphia; White papers 2005-02-01
WSP Holding Limited Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript: Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Ian Zaffino - Oppenheimer & Company. Brian Werdesheim - Oppenheimer & Company This is Brian Werdesheim for Ian. I have a couple of questions. One would be, as far as demand for the non-API products. I mean your customers...; Tags: China, Oppenheimer & Co., Environment, Call Transcript, Earnings, Marginal Cost, Seeking Alpha; Earnings calls 2008-11-14
Analog Dollars, Digital Pennies, and an Embarrassment of Video Riches: Fred Wilson of Union Square ventures had an interesting post titled Trading Analog Dollars For Digital Pennies. He quoted Jeff Zucker, NBC Universal CEO, expressing concern "that we do not end up trading analog dollars for digital pennies." Wilson writes that the change is inevitable and based on marginal costs...; Tags: Video, Marginal Cost, Hulu, Corporate Communications, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Internet, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Erik Sherman; Blog posts 2008-12-01

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Marginal cost pricing for utilities: a digest of the California experience: I. INTRODUCTION California has been a bellweather state in inaugurating regulatory pricing techniques,(1) and the California Public Utilities Commission CPUC has moved marginal cost pricing from crude to refined. The dollars at stake have been huge by any standard. Electric revenues for the state's "big three" companies total about...; Tags: California Public Utilities Commission, commission, Gas, Kahn, PG&E Corp., revenue; Research articles 1999-01-01

Le tarif vert retrouve: The marginal cost concept and the pricing of electricity in Britain and France, 1945-1970.: Martin Chick (*) This article compares the development of marginal cost pricing in the French and UK nationalised electricity industries between 1945 and 1970. Asking why French 'marginaliste' economists like Allais and Boiteux enjoyed more influence than their UK counterparts like Meade, political decisions concerning the organisation of...; Tags: Electricite de France; Research articles 2002-01-01
Using Asset Prices To Measure The Cost Of Business Cycles: This article tries to measure the cost of consumption fluctuations using an approach that does not require the specification of preferences and instead uses asset prices. It measure the marginal cost of consumption fluctuations, the per unit benefit of a marginal reduction in consumption fluctuations expressed as a percentage of...; Tags: Asset, Asset Price, Consumption Fluctuation, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations; White papers 2003-07-01
Sharing intellectual property with affiliates in China: status of Chinese cost-sharing rules and other observations: Cost-sharing arrangements represent a good approach to the inherent tension of the low marginal cost of sharing innovation and the need for arm s-length transfer pricing. Cost-sharing arrangements may reduce withholding taxes and business taxes. As multinational corporations MNCs move more high-value activities to China, many MNCs may consider implementing...; Tags: Affiliate, benefit, China, FINANCE, OECD, payment, R&D, Taxes; Research articles 2006-11-01
The Real Cost of Freemium: Chris Anderson's book Freemium has caught a lot of attention in the high tech and media industries. When your marginal cost of goods or services is virtually zip, the idea that you could have all the customers you want by giving away product or services to a large group and...; Tags: Mistake, Chris Anderson, Strategy, Management, Erik Sherman; Blog posts 2009-09-24
UAL Corporation Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript: Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you very much, sir. First, we will take questions from the analyst community, then we will take questions from the media. The question-and-answer session will be conducted electronically. [Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from the line of Frank Boroch of Bear Stearns. Please...; Tags: UAL Corp.; Earnings calls 2007-10-24
Marginal Suppliers, Taxation, and Rental Housing:Evidence from Microdata: "Typically, when the effects of tax reform are measured, it is assumed that marginal suppliers belong to the highest income tax bracket. This assumption is critical because in competitive housing markets, tax shelter benefits from investments in rental housing will be passed on in the form of lower market rents...; Tags: Income, Supplier, Income Tax, Taxes, Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance; White papers 2003-01-01
The Value Of Setup Cost Reduction And Process Improvement For The Economic Production Quantity Model With Defects: This paper investigates the effect of imperfect yield on economic production quantity decisions. The production system is assumed to produce some time-varying proportion of defective parts which can be repaired at some unit cost. For a general defect rate function, the authors develop results that characterize the optimal run length...; Tags: Cost Reduction, Elsevier, Production System, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations; White papers 2004-11-29
Pricing Information Goods in the Presence of Copying: The effects of piracy on the pricing behavior of producers of information goods are studied within a unified model. When the copying technology involves a marginal cost and no fixed cost, producers act independently. In this simple framework, the paper highlights the trade-off between ex ante and ex post efficiency...; Tags: Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing; White papers 2002-04-04
ABC for quantitative policy decisions. (accounting methods): Managerial accounting textbooks frequently fail to discuss the use of attributable costs in quantitative decision-making. They tend to focus on the use of absorption cost analysis or marginal cost analysis but these approaches carry dangers and are not apManagerial accounting textbooks frequently fail to discuss the use of attributable costs...; Tags: ABC Inc., accounting, analysis, decision-making, textbook; Research articles 1998-05-01
PowerSecure International, Inc. The Wall Street Analyst Forum Call Transcript: Question-and-Answer Session Unidentified Speaker Inaudible Question 60 to 90 on the bottom line? Chris Hutter New does not have much effect at all. Basically, what’s that about is what is the cost of producing electricity for the utilities? Utilities don’t really don’t use oil to produce electricity....; Tags: PowerSecure International Inc., Call Transcript, Business, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Seeking Alpha; Earnings calls 2008-11-19
The Optimal Tax Rate for Capital Income is Negative: This paper examine the problem of optimal taxation in a dynamic economy with imperfectly competitive markets and finds that the optimal tax system will tend to provide subsidies for the purchase of capital goods to offset gaps between price and marginal cost. The average tax on capital income will be...; Tags: Income, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance; White papers 1997-06-05
Optimal Customized Bundle Pricing for Information Goods: This paper provides a model for choosing the optimal number of bundles and their prices in the context of designing markets for information goods. Selling bundled goods is a widespread phenomenon, and a recent paper showed that under conditions of zero marginal cost, and independent and identically distributed customer valuations,...; Tags: Pricing Strategy, Information Good, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing; White papers 2002-08-01
JUST HOW STRONG IS THE U.S. ECONOMY?: David Rosenberg is a 20 year veteran of the Street, David most recently was Merrill Lynch's chief North American Economist, where he correctly warned about the Housing and Credit Collapse and Recession in advance. He is the Chief Economist of Canada's Gluskin Sheff > > What made things so interesting...; Tags: economy, debt, tax, Federal Reserve Board; News items 2009-10-28
Costs of Taxation and the Benefits of Public Goods: The Role of Income Effects: The fact that raising taxes can increase taxed labor supply through income effects is frequently used to justify much lower measures of the marginal welfare cost of taxes and greater public good provision than indicated by traditional, compensated analyses. The paper confirms that this difference remains substantial with newer elasticity...; Tags: World Bank Group, Benefit, Taxation, Income, Free Trade, Taxes, Operational Accounting, Finance, Financial Planning; White papers 2005-09-01
Cartel leads to monopoly profits.: High oil prices are due less to scarcity than to the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries Opec exploiting its cartel power, according to a new report. Roger Stern of Johns Hopkins University estimates that the marginal cost of a barrel of High oil prices are...; Tags: barrel, Cartel, OPEC; Research articles 2006-01-27