Not exact matches
Poor procurement practices
cost Australian governments around $ 239 million annually, according to a new
study from Deloitte Access Economics.
«We also included population, income and poverty data
from the U.S. Census Bureau, unemployment rates
from various sources, median home listing prices
from Zillow, and median monthly rent
costs from Trulia,» the
study says.
A new
study from the Air Transport Research Society ranked 206 airports on productivity and
cost competitiveness.
The
study makes worst - case assumptions that may inflate the
cost of meeting U.S. targets under the Paris accord while largely ignoring the economic benefits to U.S. businesses
from building and operating renewable energy projects.
A new
study from RAND may be the first to document the impact of rising healthcare
costs on business performance,» explains Rick Newman at Usnews.com.
The
cost of electricity
from large - scale solar installations now is comparable to and sometimes cheaper than natural gas - fired power, even without incentives aimed at promoting environmentally friendly power, according to industry players and outside
cost studies.
The cases of the Angola 5 — a group of men who failed to escape
from the maximum - security prison and killed a guard in the process — have caught the attention of Louisiana lawmakers who are
studying the
costs of capital punishment in their state.
Similarly, the National Federation of Independent Business, in a
study released in December, claims a proposed wage increase in New York to $ 8.50
from $ 7.25 with an index to inflation would
cost the state 22,000 jobs and $ 2.5 billion in revenue.
According to a 2015
study from former President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisors, conflicted advice was
costing consumers about $ 17 billion in retirement earnings each year.
The first two points are limited in the impact they demonstrate: The Temple
study showed no decrease in DUI deaths on weekends, when the
cost of UberX rides tends to rise with demand - based pricing, while the data
from Seattle is only
from that one city.
Crescent Electric
studied mining
costs based on the wattage used by the three most popular mining rigs (the AntMiner S9, the AntMinerS7 and the Avalon 6) and the days each takes to mine a coin (which range
from 452 to over 1,800 depending on the machine), then multiplied by the average electricity rate in each state.
That key intuition comes
from Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, of Columbia University, and Linda Bilmes, of Harvard University, who've been
studying the matter for years trying to bring some method to the madness of accounting for the budgetary and broader economic
costs of war (which remains, by their own admission, a bit of an educated guess).
The scientists behind these
studies all seem to agree on the answer: rather than view narcissism as an evil to be always avoided, organizations should strive to understand that small doses of the characteristic are often inseparable
from high achievement and make rational
cost - benefit analyses.
This
study estimates the
costs to steel consumers and others of steel quotas or taxes that could result
from a Section 201 investigation or legislation pending before Congress.
Research
from the
study proved that focusing on phosphate controls as opposed to nitrogen will end algal blooms at far less
cost.
A Pembina Institute
study from 2009 estimated the
costs to reclaim what was then 686 square miles of oil sands developments and 170 square miles of tailings ponds would run as high as $ 15 billion.
It
costs $ 174,000 per mile to run transmission lines above ground on average and $ 1.4 million per mile to bury them, according to a
study from the Edison Electric Institute.
According to Genworth Financial's
Cost of Care Survey for 2017, the annual median cost of services increased by an average of 4.5 percent in 2017 from the prior year, the second - highest year - over-year increase since the study began in 2004 and nearly three times the overall rate of inflat
Cost of Care Survey for 2017, the annual median
cost of services increased by an average of 4.5 percent in 2017 from the prior year, the second - highest year - over-year increase since the study began in 2004 and nearly three times the overall rate of inflat
cost of services increased by an average of 4.5 percent in 2017
from the prior year, the second - highest year - over-year increase since the
study began in 2004 and nearly three times the overall rate of inflation.
For BTN's 2016 Corporate Travel Index, the 32nd annual, BCD Travel's Advito provided the average hotel and car rental
costs paid by BCD corporate clients, BTN collected hotel taxes and surcharges
from hotels, and eight New York University School of Professional
Studies Advanced Research Seminar students, led by academic chair and clinical assistant professor Lynn Minnaert, called restaurants in October and November to gather meal prices.
From our
study, we discovered that the average
cost to trade a stock or ETF through online brokerages is $ 8.90.
That may come as a surprise amid hand - wringing about the spiraling
cost of health care, but two new
studies, one
from research company IMS Health and one
from pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, show that the amount of...
However, there is no evidence that broad - based tax cuts can pay for themselves completely, and economic
studies from across the spectrum have found that deficit - financed tax cuts only pay for a fraction of their
cost (including
from the Congressional Budget Office and other economists).
One
study provides evidence consistent with one explanation of the overall lack of strong findings: optimal board structures may vary by firm size, with smaller firms benefiting
from a unified chair / CEO position, with the clarity of leadership that structure provides, and larger firms benefiting
from the extra monitoring that an independent chair may provide given the greater risk of «agency
costs» at large companies.
And
study after
study shows that flexible work options, like the ability to work
from home or work a flexible schedule, have great
cost benefits for employers.
To do so, we considered all non-housing expenses
from the Bureau of Labor
Studies Consumer Expenditure Survey excluding medical and vehicle
costs.
However, economic
studies from across the spectrum have found that deficit - financed tax cuts only pay for a fraction of their
cost (including
from the Congressional Budget Office and other economists).
Robin Gareiss, president of Nemertes Research, shares insight gleaned
from the firm's 12th annual UCC Total
Cost of Operations
study.
As I then thought what is stopping me
from running a random Monkey portfolio in real life and beating the index, a near guarantee according to this
study, but I am guessing that trading
costs will kill me very quickly due to the amount of buys / sells to the size of my funds!
According to a
study from Hanley Wood Data Studio at BuilderOnline.com, assuming median income, median home price, and median rental
costs, today's typical first - time buyer would require more than 8 years to save ten percent for a down payment on a home.
That may come as a surprise amid hand - wringing about the spiraling
cost of health care, but two new
studies, one
from research company IMS Health and one
from pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, show that the amount of money Americans spend on prescription drugs went down in 2012 for the first time in decades.
For the purposes of the
study, a fund was considered «low
cost» if its fees and expense ratios placed it in the lowest quartile of all U.S. funds, as measured by data
from Morningstar, the Chicago - based fund research firm.
«Since the financial crisis there's been a question about whether the value - add
from an intermediary fund is worth the
cost,» said Ashby Monk, executive director of the Global Projects Center at Stanford University, which
studies the movement of financial assets globally.
One
study showed that companies saved
from 24 - 32 percent the
cost of hiring the HR staff in - house.
A
study from the World Health Organization suggests that breastfeeding babies for the first six months of their lives can significantly decrease infant death and would save millions of dollars in hospital
costs for infant care...
example, a recent
study of Europe put the average
cost per job saved there by protectionism at a cool $ 215,000, for a total
cost of $ 43 billion in one year (
from the Economist, May 22).
These overall
cost reductions are more impressive in the context of rising freight
costs, which were up 11 percent
from 2008 levels, according to a
study released today by the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), the 2010 Logistics Benchmark Report.
A
study from Brazil (CI 2005) for larger producers (Ipanema Coffees was one, and is one of the largest producers in the world) stated that annual audit
costs were between $ 1000 and $ 5000.
The European Milk Board (EMB), responding to French President Emmanuel Macron's announcement that the milk price will be determined by production
costs, has released data
from a
study it commissioned to look at farmer's
costs to produce milk.
One of its cutting - edge
studies is the measuring of food loss and waste at all stages —
from production and post-production to processing, distribution and consumption — in order to identify the origin and
cost of food waste and loss at the local, regional and global level.
Of course, the dollar amount depends on the manufacturer and their product line, but a combined industry
study from the Food Marketing Institute and Grocery Manufacturers Association estimates food recalls can
cost a company up to $ 10 million (U.S. dollars).
In this
study, and in opposition to findings elsewhere, higher levels of social support were associated with greater depressive symptomatology, leading researchers to speculate that for low - income men the perceived
costs of reciprocity may have deterred them
from utilizing available support; or that peer groups may have influenced their alcohol or drug use, or placed demands on their resources (Anderson et al, 2005).
Regnerus (the same sociologist behind a controversial
study of how children of same - sex couples fare) says cheap sex — sex with little
cost as far as time or emotional investment — is behind a host of societal ills,
from fewer people marrying to the rise of unmarriageable men to more people living together to more children being born outside of marriage — you get the idea.
The authors observed: «A major finding of [the 1994
study] was that school food authorities... subsidize the
cost of nonreimbursable meals with overall excess revenue generated
from all reimbursable meals.
[26] A more recent USDA
study found that, on average, revenue
from the sale of competitive foods during the 2005 - 2006 school year covered only 71 percent of the reported
cost of providing such food.
A
study published last year in the journal Pediatrics estimated that if 90 % of U.S. families followed guidelines to breastfeed exclusively for 6 months, the U.S. would annually save $ 13 billion
from reduced medical and other
costs.
A
study published in the journal Pediatrics estimated that if 90 % of U.S. families followed guidelines to breastfeed exclusively for 6 months, the U.S. would annually save $ 13 billion
from reduced medical and other
costs — that's 13 billion dollars!!!
In Alabama, annual full - time child care for an infant will
cost an average of $ 5,547, according to a
study from the Institute for Women's Policy Research.
Views are particularly polarised in the United States, with interventions and
costs of hospital births escalating and midwives involved with home births being denied the ability to be lead professionals in hospital, with admitting and discharge privileges.5 Although several Canadian medical societies6 7 and the American Public Health Association8 have adopted policies promoting or acknowledging the viability of home births, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists continues to oppose it.9
Studies on home birth have been criticised if they have been too small to accurately assess perinatal mortality, unable to distinguish planned
from unplanned home births accurately, or retrospective with the potential of bias
from selective reporting.
NEW LENOX — Park officials want to know if they have a chance of saving Cherry Hill School
from the wrecking ball before they shell out money to
study renovation
costs, New Lenox Park Board President Tom Lewis said recently.
We estimated differences in resource use and
costs with the independent samples t test procedure and differences in effects with odds ratios and weighted incidence rates
from the cohort
study.