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Oil prices fall sharply collapses in Asian economies severely curtail demand. 

Generic policies are effective instruments when a patent expires. In the United States of America the average whole sale price falls to 60% of the price of the branded medicines when one generic competitor enters the market, and to 29% when 10 competitors. To introduce and expand the use of generic medicine products, it is important that (1) supportive regulations exist, (2) reliable quality assurance is in place. 

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Figure 8.3-5 shows the discounted cumulative cash-flow as a function of elapsed years. With the assumptions contained in this qualitative discussion, we found that the discounted break-even period is 4 years when the product can be sold at 220 EUR/kg, it is 9 years when the price is 150 EUR/kg, but it is more than 20 years if the price falls to 120 EUR/kg. These results are obtained assuming an inflation rate of 3% per year. 

Second, our research also confirmed the idea that the timing of capital investments, rather than strong fluctuations in demand, is to blame for the industry s volatile cycles. An industry-wide herd instinct for capital investment decisions has created large supply-and-demand swings (see Nattermann, P.). Since companies make most of their capital investments during the cycle s upswings (Fig. 3.4), prices fall quickly as new supply floods the market about two years later. 

The results with uniform NE allocation are shown in Figure 7. With a fixed allowance price, as the value of the NE allocations increases, additional gas power stations replace peaking generation, usually provided by open-cycle gas turbines, or demand side response as the value of the allocation increases. The electricity price falls and C02 emissions fall. Nevertheless, at a certain value of total NE allowances (between 40 and 50/KWh), the option for CCGT to replace peakers is exhausted and it becomes viable to invest in new coal-fired power stations. From this point onwards,... 

U. S. and Europe, respectively), petroleum diesel and methanol and may also be affected by the emphasis on food or fuel applications. Presently, rising soybean oil and declining diesel fuel prices have shaved about 25 cents per gallon off biodiesel profits and in actuality any fluctuation in the price of soybean oil, methanol, or petroleum diesel will affect the profit margins and ultimately the rate at which biodiesel can be produced economically. If oil prices rise to 65 per barrel again, biodiesel production could grow by another 250 million gallons, but if oil prices fall to 45 per barrel, companies may reconsider plans to enter the market (Tullo, 2007). 

The shift devastated commercial enterprises in the voluntary extraction industry. Sulfur prices embarked on a decline which culminated with spot sulfur prices falling to the 10s per ton in Tampa, FL, and Vancouver, Canada, by mid-2001. In contrast, prices during 1990 were 140/ton and l08/ton, respectively. The primary difference was that, in 2001, the newly developed disparity between voluntary and involuntary volumes of output precluded a curtailment in sulfur output in the face of a dramatic, yet temporary, decline in demand (see Figs 25.5-25.7). The increase in demand following 2001 took prices in Tampa above 65 per long ton during 2003. 

The graph illustrates the lowering of the production cost as the butane price falls away from the parity price influenced by the price of... 

The downward slope of the curve indicates that demand increases as the price falls. However, this curve is shifted by certain factors such as taste of the customer. For instance, if the environmental imperative is legislated to the automobile manufacturer and the increasing desire to go green is present, then the demand will shift to the left. If the customer s awareness around global warming and environmental concerns manifests itself by a preference for a hybrid or electric vehicle over a 13-mpg, SUV, the market demand will shift as in Figure 1.4. 

Direct payments are paid to soybean farmers at a rate of 0.44/bushel on 85% of their base acres at the level of their program yields. Finally, the countercyclical payments provide soybean farmers payments when prices fall below 5.80. The maximum a farmer may receive is 75,000 from the MLA/LDP program 40,000 in direct payments and 65,000 from countercyclical payments. A total cap is 360,000 per individual for all forms of government payment. 

Prices fall, moving from the East to the West in Brazil. The difference between the Center—West with the coastal regions widened over the period to over 2.00/bu (32%) by late 2006. The interior price in central Mato Grosso was on average about 23% or 1.38/bu lower than in the coastal state of Parana (Fig. 21.11). 

As for the importance of the curvature to bond investors, let s consider what happens to bond prices in both falling and rising interest rate environments. First, what happens to bond prices as interest rates fall The answer is obvious bond prices rise. How about the rate at which they rise If the price/discount rate relationship was linear, as interest rates fell, bond prices would rise at a constant rate. However, the relationship is not linear, it is curved and curved inward. Accordingly, when interest rates fall, bond prices increase at an increasing rate. Now, let s consider what happens when interest rates rise. Of course, bond prices fall. How about the rate at which bond prices fall Once again, if the price/discount rate relationship were linear, as interest rates rose, bond prices would fall at a constant rate. Since it curved inward, when interest rates rise, bond prices decrease at a decreasing rate. In Chapter 4, we will explore more fully the implications of the curvature or convexity of the price/discount rate relationship. 

An alternative is to hedge with cheaper OTM puts, for example, the 115 puts priced at only 0.64, costing 318,720—half the price of the ATM options. As the revised payoff diagram of Exhibit 17.21 shows, however, while the investor benefits more when bond prices rise (because the premium wasted is smaller), the maximum loss is greater when bond prices fall. This is because the bond portfolio remains unhedged while bond prices fall 1.42%, until the put strike is reached, losing around 700,000. Together with the premium of around 300,000, the investor could lose more than 1 million, as the chart shows. 

The net cost of this strategy is 0.82 million, which is the maximum amount the investor can lose if he or she is wrong and bond prices fall. If bond prices stay the same, the net loss is only 0.34 million, as the option bought is in-the-money, and will expire with some intrinsic value that will be returned to the investor. If bond prices rise up to 1.50%, the investor can enjoy the benefit until the 118.00 strike is reached and profits are capped at around 1.2 million. 

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A number of factors dictate whether an option is exercised or not. The first is the asymmetric profit-loss profile of option holders their potential gain is theoretically unlimited when the price of the underlyir asset rises, but they lose only their initial investment if the price falls. This asymmetry fevors runnir an option position. Another consideration favorir holdir is the fact that the options time value is lost if it is exercised early. In callable bonds, the call price often decreases as the bond approaches mamriry. This creates an incentive to delay exercise until a lower strike price is available. Coupon payments, on the other hand, may fevor earlier exercise, since, in the case of a normal, nonembedded option, this allows the holder to earn interest sooner. 

One percent of U.S. homes will have residential fuel cells between 2006 and 2010. When cell prices fall more a few years later, the units will be in half of all homes. And, by 2031, we ll all be off the grid."... 

One of the recurrent features of the commodity chemical industry is its instability or cyclic nature. This is, in large part, due to the tendency for many firms to make investment in new plant simultaneously, to follow a rising market, only to see prices fall when overcapacity results. The conventional view of a world class plant is that it must be big in order to capitalise on the 0.6 power rule, which states that capital costs only increase at (production rate)° as discussed with an example in Chapter 2. Intensified plants, however, with their lower capital costs, should allow smaller-scale plants to compete economically with their standard counterparts. Thus, in following a rising market, the capital investment can be made in smaller increments and be much less risky. This should facilitate a more orderly market development without recurrent bouts of feast and famine . 

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