Costs - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Nov 2013
News

The Real Cost of Bribery

2008
Working Paper

Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship

By: Ramana Nanda

This paper examines the extent to which the positive relationship between personal wealth and entry into entrepreneurship is due to financing constraints. I exploit a tax reform and use unique micro-data from Denmark to study how exogenous changes in the cost of... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Cost; Financing and Loans; Personal Finance; Human Capital; Wealth; Denmark

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We study markups and pricing strategies along the supply chain. Our unique dataset combines detailed price and cost information from a large global manufacturer with matched retail prices collected online for the period July 2018 through June 2023. We show that... View Details

17 Apr 2015
News

This CEO Blind Spot Is Costing Shareholders Billions

14 Nov 2019
Video

Health Minute: Measure Costs Correctly for Better Patient Outcomes

14 Oct 2011
Working Paper Summaries

The Cost of Capital for Alternative Investments

Keywords: by Jakub W. Jurek & Erik Stafford

December 2003 (Revised October 2006)
Case

Globalizing the Cost of Capital and Capital Budgeting at AES

By: Mihir A. Desai and Douglas Kurt Schillinger

With electricity generating businesses around the world, AES Corp. is seeking a methodology for calculating the cost of capital for its various businesses and potential projects. In the past, AES used the same cost of capital for all of its capital budgeting, but the... View Details

Keywords: International Finance; Risk Management; Globalized Firms and Management; Cost of Capital; Valuation; Emerging Markets; Foreign Direct Investment; Capital Budgeting; Energy Industry; South America

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24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think

No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy; Utilities

July 2007
Article

Cooperation between Corporations and Environmental Groups: A Transaction Cost Perspective

Theory suggests that when transaction costs are low, corporations and stakeholders can minimize social costs by transacting to their mutual advantage, but when transaction costs are high, reducing social costs requires the intervention of a centralized institution.... View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Cost; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Competitive Advantage; Cooperation

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February 2006 (Revised October 2006)
Teaching Note

Introduction to Cost Accounting Systems (TN)

By: David F. Hawkins, V.G. Narayanan, Michele Jurgens and Jacob Cohen

Keywords: Cost Accounting

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12 Aug 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Culture Clash: The Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity

Keywords: by Eric J. Van den Steen

20 Dec 2006
Working Paper Summaries

The Demise of Cost and Profit Centers

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

2009
Case

Midland Energy Resources, Inc.: Cost of Capital (TN): Brief Case.

By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Joel L. Heilprin

Finance, Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC), Capital Structure, Risk Assessment, Corporate Finance, Cash Flow, Valuation, Beta, North America, Energy, Oil and Gas, Cost of Capital, Cost of Equity, Discount Rate, Risk Premium,... View Details

Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Cost of Capital; Energy Industry

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15 Nov 1989 - 16 Nov 1989
Lecture

Are Capital Costs Lower in Japan?

By: W. Carl Kester

Keywords: Cost of Capital; Japan

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27 Feb 2019
News

The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall

2002
Chapter

The Value and Cost of Modularity

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark

Keywords: Value; Cost

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November 1992
Article

In Defense of Activity-Based Cost Management

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Cost Management

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March 2006
Background Note

A Note on Applying Dimensional Analysis to Understand Cost Drivers

Describes the basics of how to break down costs into productivity and input prices and then compare those cost drivers between competitors. View Details

Keywords: Cost Accounting; Competitive Strategy

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