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Opportunity Cost

Opportunity Cost is the value of the next best alternative forgone when a choice is made among mutually exclusive options under conditions of scarcity.

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69.5K

Citations

1.9K

Authors

862

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

160

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Alternative Cost

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Economic development as self-discovery

Ricardo Hausmann, Dani Rodrik · Journal of Development Economics · 2003 · 1.7K citations

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An opportunity cost model of subjective effort and task performance

Robert Kurzban, Angela Duckworth, Joseph W. Kable et al. · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 2013 · 1.4K citations · Full text

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The (ir)rational consideration of the cost of science in transition economies

Quan‐Hoang Vuong · Nature Human Behaviour · 2017 · 1.4K citations · Full text

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Why Don’t Issuers Get Upset About Leaving Money on the Table in IPOs?

Tim Loughran, Jay R. Ritter · Review of Financial Studies · 2002 · 1.4K citations

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Irreversible Investment, Capacity Choice and the Value of the Firm

Robert S. Pindyck · AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA) · 1986 · 1.3K citations · Full text

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Authors

1.9K

  1. GP
    Glenn P. Jenkins

    Queen's University, Canada

    6 publications · 107 citations

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  2. SS
    Shmuel S. Oren

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    4 publications · 167 citations

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  3. RO
    Richard O. Zerbe

    University of Washington, United States

    4 publications · 158 citations

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  4. CK
    Chun‐Yan Kuo

    Queen's University, Canada

    4 publications · 64 citations

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  5. RS
    Robert S. Pindyck

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    3 publications · 2K citations

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Institutions

862

  1. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    14 h-index

    19 publications

    2.8K citations

  2. Queen's University

    Kingston, Canada

    12 h-index

    17 publications

    1.5K citations

  3. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    12 h-index

    13 publications

    1.3K citations

  4. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    12 h-index

    15 publications

    1.7K citations

  5. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    11 h-index

    12 publications

    688 citations

  6. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    11 h-index

    17 publications

    8.1K citations

  7. Centre for Economic Policy Research

    London, United Kingdom

    11 h-index

    10 publications

    580 citations

  8. New York University

    New York, United States

    10 h-index

    12 publications

    928 citations

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Venues

  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 56 publications · 1.9K citations

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  2. The Quarterly Journal of Economics

    QJE · 19 publications · 2.8K citations

    16

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  3. American Economic Review

    16 publications · 1.6K citations

    15

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  4. The Review of Economics and Statistics

    15 publications · 1K citations

    13

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  5. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

    Repository · 15 publications · 344 citations

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