In den letzten Jahrzehnten wurden zahlreiche Instrumente zur Förderung von Investitionen entwickelt. Mit diesen Förderinstrumenten sind für die Investoren unterschiedlich hohe Vorteile (Vergünstigungseffekte) verbunden. Die Höhe der Begünstigung hängt von der individuellen Situation des...

Investment projects consist of activities which are interrelated by techno-logical and resource constraints. The timing of payments depends on the scheduling of the activities which is not known a priory. Hence, the decision to be made, is to find a feasible Investment schedule with maximum net...

This paper considers the profit maximization problem of a firm that must make sunk investments in long-lived assets to produce output. It is shown that if per period accounting income is calculated using a simple and natural allocation rule for investment called the relative replacement cost...

The economic and financial crisis in Europe is affecting the financing of long-term infrastructure investment. There are multiple clearly identifiable channels: reduced demand for long-term investment, a tightening prudential framework for lending, upward adjustment of risk perception, complex...