Example sentences of "the rate of return 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 .
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