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The Costs and Benefits of Positive Illusions [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Positive illusions are associated with unrealistic optimism about the future and an inflated assessment of one's abilities. They are prevalent in normal life and are considered essential for maintaining a healthy mental state, although, there are ...
Spyros eMakridakis
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The Costs and Benefits of Reinsurance [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 Purchasing reinsurance reduces insurers’ insolvency risk by stabilising loss experience, increasing capacity, limiting liability on specific risks and/or protecting against catastrophes. Consequently, purchasing reinsurance should reduce capital costs. However, transferring risk to reinsurers is expensive.
J. David Cummins +3 more
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Understanding the compliance costs of benefits and tax credits [PDF]
, 2009 This report describes a scoping study to understand more about the nature of the 'costs of compliance' that claimants of social security benefits and (personal) tax credits incur, and discusses possible ways of measuring such costs. 'Costs of compliance'
Shaw, J. +8 more
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Costs and Benefits of Speculation [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 We quantify the effects of financial regulation in an equilibrium model with delegated portfolio management. Fund managers trade stocks and bonds in an order-driven market, subject to transaction taxes and constraints on short-selling and leverage. Results are obtained on the equilibrium properties of portfolio choice, trading activity, market quality ...
Lensberg, Terje +2 more
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Evaluation support study of the costs and benefits of the implementation of LEADER [PDF]
, 2023 The objective of the assignment is to assess the added value of LEADER and the extent to which the increased costs of implementing the LEADER approach are justified by its additional benefits.
Kim Pollermann +4 more
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The Costs and Benefits of Kindness
The Journal of Positive Psychology, 2022 What is kindness, and what makes an act kind? Previous research has suggested that the kindness of an act depends on the benefit provided to the recipient, the cost to the actor, and the ratio of cost to benefit. Here we conduct two studies to investigate the relationship between the benefit, cost, cost-benefit ratio and the kindness of a large sample ...
Oliver Scott Curry +3 more
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The Costs and Benefits of Consuming [PDF]
Journal of Consumer Research, 2000 Abstract Consuming is defined as behavior whereby entropy is increased in exchange for existential or experiential rewards. Existential rewards are well known—for example, the satisfaction of Maslowian needs. But experiential rewards are perhaps just as important: these refer to the temporary improvement in positive mood people ...
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Self-employment and marriage: Costs and benefits
South African Journal of Business Management, 1996 This article highlights the effect of self-employment in a marriage by examining both the costs and possible benefits that are brought to bear when the breadwinner is in self-employment.
Cathy M. Haselau, Madhubala I. Kasiram
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Costs and benefits of awns [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Botany, 2016 Awns, which are derived from floral structures in grasses, are known to be critically important for photosynthesis and transpiration. However, arguments about the costs and benefits of their growth and development for crop grain yield are still ongoing. In this issue of Journal of Experimental Botany (pages 2573–2586), Rebetzke et al.
Guo, Zifeng, Schnurbusch, Thorsten
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Costs and benefits of business information security
Управление, 2023 The article considers the process of information security from the position of cost-benefit assessment that allows to understand economic aspects of feasibility study of measures in the field of business information protection. In the practice of Russian
N. S. Kozyr
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