Sentences with phrase «equivalent gain»

So, dramatic improvement in building efficiency is an important part of a much larger transition that must include equivalent gains in transportation, agriculture, urban design, and manufacturing.

Toronto - listed shares in the company rose 5 percent to C$ 72.36 in morning trading, while the U.S. equivalent gained 4.8 percent to $ 56.08.

If we use this procedure on, say, 5 more cryomodules, and we get equivalent gains, we can easily get up to operating at our design energy of 1,000 MeV.»

Professor List then «opened his laptop», as he put it, taking us through findings from a couple of the field experiments (AKA Randomised Controlled Trials) he's conducted in schools using the behavioural economic principle of «loss aversion» — our human tendency to prefer to avoid risks more than we appreciate equivalent gains:

Toronto - listed shares in the company rose 5 percent to C $ 72.36 in morning trading, while the U.S. equivalent gained 4.8...

Even if you can, there's no assurance that every cent you save in expenses will translate to an equivalent gain in returns (although research shows funds with lower costs do tend to outperform their high - cost counterparts).

Or unless the extrinsic value is nothing, but even then, unless the investor really wants that position, he is more likely to just sell the call for an equivalent gain on 100 shares of stock.

In fact, we feel loss from two to two - and - a-half times more acutely than we feel an equivalent gain.

In short, loss aversion is our willingness to go to great lengths to avoid losses — much farther than we'll go to get an equivalent gain.

He went on to describe the method of avoidance thus: In each case two assets appear, like «particles» in a gas chamber with opposite charges, one of which is used to create the loss, the other of which gives rise to an equivalent gain that prevents the taxpayer from supporting any real loss and whose gain is intended not to be taxable.