Betekenis van:
opportunity cost

Voorbeeldzinnen

1. Major renovations of existing buildings, regardless of their size, provide an opportunity to take cost-effective measures to enhance energy performance.
2. The high proportion of non avoidable costs [4] in BE’s cost structure in its nuclear power stations has also given it little opportunity to respond to lower prices by reducing costs.
3. Regarding captive sales, the option for the Community industry to sell part of its production on the captive market provided it with the opportunity to maintain high levels of capacity utilisation. High capacity utilisation contributes to decrease cost of production because of economies of scale.
4. improves on the old PM3 and the new PM3 improves on old PM2, the closure of PM2 and assets in Sweden and Finland avoiding overcapacity. This sequence of investments brings important benefits to SEL, as it does not have the cost of investing in a costly greenfield magazine paper mill, there is no excessive capacity expansion and it contains a convenient opportunity to develop its technology base without incurring excessive financial or economic risk.
5. Secondly, the Commission doubted that the Region had acted as a market economy investor when it set up Fluorite di Silius, in order to have it bid for the mining concession, on the basis of a business plan with an internal rate of return of 3,5 % [9], which was clearly below the average for the industry [10], and below the opportunity cost to the investor measured by reference to State bonds [11].