Sentences with phrase «marginal benefit»

Using overlapping long - horizon returns provides only marginal benefit.

Each additional stock beyond that point offers marginal benefit.

As a result, you are spending the majority of your time on exercises that are producing very little marginal benefit.

That under certain conditions the relative prices of two goods do reflect relative marginal benefits and relative marginal costs.

In the absence of government action, the private sector will increase emissions up to the point where there is no further marginal benefit.

The only marginal benefit to using the tool is to show someone the impact factors have on the relative cost of the policy.

The fact is, supplementing with calcium alone without addressing other dietary deficiencies offers marginal benefits.

This is mathematically equivalent to the well - known result that one should increase pollution control as long as marginal benefits exceed marginal costs.

Relative to other banks, Citibank checking is best described as a mixed bag with marginal benefits for specific types of customers.

«Being on this list will only yield marginal benefit,» said David Plank, who directs Policy Analysis for California Education, a research center at Stanford University.

This is just one example of how profligate spending on treatments of marginal benefit contribute to runaway health care expenses.

For decades, scientists and doctors thought immunotherapy - treatments that harness the immune system to fight a disease — was of marginal benefit in lung cancer, says Jean - Charles Soria, Institute Gustave Roussy in Paris, France.

In this analysis, increasing doses of a nutrient provide first declining marginal benefits, then inconsequential effects throughout a «plateau range,» and finally increasing marginal toxicity.

In fact, Ontario is in a very good place because we have a release value in being able to sell our excess capacity to the U.S. Even if we get just $ 1 for that excess capacity it is a major marginal benefit that you do not find in all electricity markets.

And there's the rub: As easy as it may be to talk big about big data, the actual doing is a slog — plumbing and janitorial tasks that take a lot of effort and yield marginal benefits.

«But also the uncomfortable reality — for climate modellers — that finite research dollars invested in ever more sophisticated climate models offer very little marginal benefit to decision makers.»

For example, if you can join a family business where a college degree would provide marginal benefit you will end up with a significantly higher return by working for the 4 years it takes to attend school.

Each additional stock beyond that point offers marginal benefit.

Callahan argues that many new medical technologies produce only marginal benefits and that their high costs are a major factor in the current health care crisis.

If a business owner, business strategist or chief operations officer is able to understand the marginal costs of an action relative to its marginal benefits, she or he can make better decisions.

That is, the company should build the next unit only if, all things being equal, the marginal benefit exceeds the marginal cost.

«Although the total size of the package — 10 trillion yen or 2 % of GDP is large — the real impact is likely to be considerably smaller, since many of the programs have marginal benefit, for example promoting tourism in the Tohoku region, or rely on spending by local governments which are cash - strapped,» he said.

«The problem with this is when you have zero money for so long, the marginal benefits you get through consumption greatly diminish, but there's one thing that doesn't diminish, which is unintended consequences.»

The marginal benefit of bonds vs. cash is so small, at current yields, that one can argue it just isn't worth it.

A marginal benefit of this link between vault holdings and trade flows is that there is a shorter lag in trade data reporting.

The issue though is that for many women the first few weeks are SO grim that it just isn't worth it for the marginal benefits BF will give over FF.

(BTW, the VAST majority of those benefits accrue in the first 4 - 6 months... after that the marginal benefit of each additional month gets smaller and smaller.)

A tax on non-zero small profit is a marginal benefit over not getting a tax on anything.

Eleven per cent would get a marginal benefit and nine per cent would get a larger benefit.

For these patients, there are several chemotherapeutic options; however, each has shown only marginal benefit.

«Although there are cancer drugs with tremendous benefits, most cancer drugs have marginal benefits and real risk and harms,» says Prasad.

The mostly small studies provide conflicting results and marginal benefits.

Anything narrower provides no marginal benefit, but only increases tension on the wrist and shoulder joints.

Plus, the additional benefit of a load capacity / overall quality that's higher than the X-3's is likely minimal for home gym users — especially when weighing the marginal benefit against the cost.

Blood glucose lowering medications had marginal benefits that required twenty years of follow up to become apparent.

These students already had a fairly high prior exposure to live theater, so it is possible that the marginal benefit of this one experience on interest in theater consumption is not strong enough to be detectable.

To produce the profit - maximizing level of output and hire the optimal number of workers, and other resources, producers must compare the marginal benefits and marginal costs of producing a little more with the marginal benefits and marginal costs of producing a little less.

To determine the optimal level of a public policy program, voters and government officials must compare the marginal benefits and marginal costs of providing a little more of a little less of the program's services.

As long as the marginal benefit of an activity exceeds the marginal cost, people are better off doing more of it; when the marginal cost exceeds the marginal benefit, they are better off doing less of it.

Marginal benefit is the change in total benefit resulting from an action.

UIFSM will be of marginal benefit, Fair Funding is likely to be transformational, yet you can see, fairness has not been top of the government's list, at least not until now.

We'd vote for those major advantages over the marginal benefit of disc brakes all day long.

However, we're not talking about the totals; we're talking about the marginal benefit of allocating a fixed amount of extra money you have left over after you've made all the minimum payments.

In our view, small tariffs that serve as a «speed bump» for goods and services in a world of volatile exchange rates are relatively harmless and perhaps of marginal benefit to some businesses, but more significant protectionist policies may hurt the country imposing trade barriers far more than the countries being blocked.