Example sentences of "[art] rate [prep] [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rent control leads to a decline in the rate of return on the rented accommodation , when compared to what could be earned if the capital value of the house were invested elsewhere . |
| 2 | In particular it relies on estimating the final cost of the investment , the amount and timing of returns , the rate of return on the alternative investment ( the ‘ hurdle rate ’ ) and the rate of real deterioration of items of productive capital . |
| 3 | Using daily data for the period from October 1984 to September 1985 , they found that the covariance between the riskless rate of interest and the rate of return on the spot asset had a statistically significant positive effect on the futures price . |
| 4 | The question of measuring the response of the futures market to changes in the rate of return on the market portfolio will be considered further in Chapter 7 . |
| 5 | Private firms should invest if the rate of return on the project exceeds the market interest rate at which they can borrow funds . |
| 6 | Table 6.6 includes 3 different risk-free rates to illustrate the point made by Friend and Blume that these measures are sensitive to the rate of return on the risk-free asset . |
| 7 | It follows from the above examples that profit-maximising firms , operating under conditions of certainty , will invest in projects where the rate of return on the investment exceeds the market rate of interest . |
| 8 | Trilateralism was certainly an effective antidote to isolationism , even if it did not extinguish the assertiveness shown by the Lord Chancellor 's Department in securing a faster growth in the rate of expenditure on the courts and legal aid than did the Home Office on the police and prisons . |
| 9 | The rate of interest on the bonds is quoted net of basic rate tax . |
| 10 | The rate of interest on the borrowed funds is known , as is the rate at which the funds can be lent . |
| 11 | Part ( b ) of the figure plots the relationship between the level of income or output on the x axis and the rate of interest on the y axis . |