The opportunity cost rate is the rate of return you could earn on an alternative investment of similar risk.
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The opportunity cost of holding money is the nominal interest rate.
No, the opportunity cost does not rate a single number that is used in all situations.
Opportunity cost is the cost that an opportunity presents. The opportunity benefit is the benefit of the opportunity that is being presented.
Yes, investment is an implicit cost because it is a firm investing their own money in something that (by definition of an opportunity cost) could have been invested in something else. Investment is the opportunity cost of a firm using their own money, and whether or not the opportunity that the firm invested in is worthwhile is defined by the NROR (the normal rate of return).
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