Counting capital costs

Counting the Costs and Benefits of Metaphor

It has been demonstrated that the use of suitable metaphors in the user service interface can have a dramatic effect on the way in which the user perceives the services, depending on the category of metaphor chosen. An earlier paper by the authors postulated that interactional metaphors might lead to greater long term usage of services, as they direct the user to thinking about what the service...

Politics and Poverty: Counting the costs

This paper offers an entrée into the discussion with the argument that politics have a cost in development these costs can be political, economic, social or even emotional, as well as psychological. To this end, the paper attempts to locate the intersection between politics and poverty and poses the question: “Do politics matter?” This paper is based on a desk-top study and used mainly secondar...

Palivizumab (synagis): counting "costs" and values.

The continuing reports, letters, and pharmacoeconomic analyses concerning the use of expensive respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) prophylaxis regimens for neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) graduates mark what appears to be a shift in decisional processes for clinicians.1–3 The consideration of cost, although not new in medical or pediatric decision-making, must be approached with care as decis...

Debt Servicing Costs and Capital Structure

In contrast to the standard capital structure theory prediction that builds on a trade-o¤ between interest tax shields and expected bankruptcy costs, public …rms use debt quite conservatively. To address this well known debt conservatism puzzle (Graham 2000), I argue that servicing debt drains valuable liquidity for a …nancially constrained …rm and hence endogenously creates ‘debt servicing cos...

Trends in Corporate Profitability and Capital Costs