speculative investment

Examples of investment

investment
It has also created a system where getting into politics is a business venture, with business plans and an expected rate of return on investment.
If the project generates financial revenues, but they are lower than for purely commercial investments, then perhaps an interest rate subsidy would be most appropriate.
Shareholders expect returns on investments in pharmaceutical and biotechnologic companies.
The reduction in collateral relative to debt raises the costs of lending and reduces the return on investment and the aggregate rate of growth.
Finally, at the new steady state, investment ceases, capital, and, hence, output are reduced.
This reduces the costs of financial intermediation and raises the overall return on investment.
For example, sometimes it will be in the interests of the effectiveness of the relationship that both parties make asset-specific investments.
But investment in human rights is not only a moral and quasi-legal salvation from things that are still going depressingly wrong.
External benefits and costs that may be related to such investments are ignored since rational farmers are unlikely to be concerned about off-site effects.
Apparently, these types of pension funds are able to manage their investment more efficiently than the other categories : industry funds have lower costs.
Most of the women were casual workers working, typically, with low capital investment in tools and technology.
It is only reasonable to require an investment to yield a return at least as high as that on the alternative use of funds.
It is, of course, difficult to predict how these and future changes in the investment opportunity set will influence surplus distribution in the future.
As pointed out earlier, higher priority may be given to directing commercial credit to non-environmental investments.
Until then heavy capital investment in scientific research had been mainly limited to state-corporate sponsorship of chemistry, where the practical dividends were very apparent.
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