rate-of-return

There's no requirement for cost-benefit analysis or rate-of-return calculations.

Now's the time to invest in infrastructure, but U.S. plan too modest Ezra Klein 2010

Despite an ever-decreasing rate-of-return per unit of drilling effort, billions of dollars in subsidies continued to be poured down the rathole, pardon me, the oil well.

Alternative Energy and Rent-Seeking, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

There's no requirement for cost-benefit analysis or rate-of-return calculations.

Infrastructure: The best deal in the economy Ezra Klein 2010

Many of us believe this is the clearing price needed by operators to find and produce incremental reserves at a respectable rate-of-return on investment.

Oil! Oil! Boil And Bubble 2011

How does "rate-of-return" regulation reduce the incentive of electricity suppliers to given consumers mechanisms to alter behavior to reduce peak demand?

Electricity Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

There's no requirement for cost-benefit analysis or rate-of-return calculations.

Now's the time to invest in infrastructure, but U.S. plan too modest Ezra Klein 2010

How does "rate-of-return" regulation reduce the incentive of electricity suppliers to given consumers mechanisms to alter behavior to reduce peak demand?

Electricity Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

I also question the rate-of-return assumption, since we don't want to invest Social Security money in the stock market or anything else that is risky.

Mark Miller: Doing the Math on Early Social Security Benefits 2010

Calpers last reduced its rate-of-return assumption in 2003 amid economic turbulence.

Calpers Confronts Cuts to Return Rate Gina Chon 2010

Three of the free calculators used pre-set future investment rate-of-return assumptions that you can't change, and their percentages varied widely.

Laurence J. Kotlikoff: The Trouble with Mark Miller's Trouble With Retirement Calculators 2010