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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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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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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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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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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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Building Analytics Tool Deployment at Scale: Benefits, Costs, and Deployment Practices
Energies, 2022 Buildings are becoming more data-rich. Building analytics tools, including energy information systems (EIS) and fault detection and diagnostic (FDD) tools, have emerged to enable building operators to translate large amounts of time-series data into ...
Guanjing Lin +4 more
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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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Marginal costs and benefits [PDF]
BMJ, 1996 Decision makers are interested in measuring the costs and benefits of various interventions, and sometimes they are presented with the average costs and benefits of alternative interventions and asked to compare these. Usually a newer intervention is being compared with an existing one, and the most appropriate comparison is not of average costs (and ...
D J, Torgerson, A, Spencer
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Understanding the compliance costs of benefits and tax credits
, 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. +11 more
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The Lifetime Costs and Benefits of Medical Technology [PDF]
, 2007 Measuring the lifetime costs and benefits of medical technologies is essential in evaluating technological change and determining the productivity of medical care. Using data on Medicare beneficiaries with a heart attack in the late 1980s and 17 years of
Cutler, David
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