Adjustment Costs

Adjustment Costs

The costs associated with making any changes. For example, one must consider adjustment costs for hiring a new employee, or the costs of lost production in the event of layoffs. All companies have adjustment costs, especially when they seek to achieve greater efficiency.
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4) Alternatively, the robust advance in labor productivity could reflect broader macroeconomic factors such as normal cyclical dynamics, a decline in adjustment costs after 2000 as investment spending dropped back, greater-than-usual business caution in hiring and investment, or increased competitive pressures on firms to restructure, cut costs, raise profits, and boost productivity.
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Others--including The Economist-read it as dealing with adjustment costs, not as a statement that trade brings no net benefits.
Trade and adjustment costs
This article's main contribution therefore lies in estimating the adjustment costs that households face in the trade of consumer durables, using those cross-sectional moments.
Understanding the costs of consumer durable adjustments
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The result found shows that, for the period analyzed, Brazilian banks exhibited high capital adjustment costs, with no great variations in capital between periods.
Empirical analysis of Brazilian banks' capital buffers during the period 2001-2011
In the case when productivity growth is lower in sector 1 (black line), the optimal inflation rate is decreasing in sector 1's price-adjustment costs: When sector 1's adjustment costs are low ([[theta].
Relative price changes and the optimal inflation rate
The information regarding price adjustment costs is unattainable because not all these costs can be observed in reality or are measurable.
Price rigidities and the market process

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