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Interest-rate cost

A profit-maximizing firm must not undertake a R&D project for which the: 1) Expected rate of return exceeds its interest-rate cost of funds. 2) interest-rate cost of funds exceeds the expected rate of return. 3) expected returns are in the distant future. 4) the expected returns, though potentially very large, are uncertain.

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