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home plants under uncertainty; then, as uncertainty unfolds, they may source the home market from their home plants or from …
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The paper studies the interaction between cyclical uncertainty and investment in a stochastic real option framework where demand shifts stochastically between three different states, each with different rates of drift and volatility. In our setting the shifts are governed by a three-state Markov...
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We use a unique dataset to estimate the impact of a large credit supply shock on employment in Spain. We exploit marked differences in banks’ health at the onset of the Great Recession. Several weak banks were rescued by the State and they reduced credit more than other banks. We compare...
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It is frequently observed that the implementation of green policies is delayed compared to the initial announcement. Considering a setting with a representative monopolist extracting a non-renewable resource, we demonstrate that announcing a green policy, but then delaying its implementation, is...
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A healthy financial system encourages the efficient allocation of capital and risk. The collapse of the house price …
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the market. Suppose that a higher investment level makes the realization of high quality more likely. Then, if consumers … distribution of high and low quality that may be put on the market. We uncover two effects that may lead the firm to overinvest in … quality compared to a market with full information: first, an adverse selection effect according to which a sufficiently large …
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literature in mathematical finance concerning optimal portfolio allocation and stopping rules? The uncertainty concerns the … but subject to economic constraints. The crises occurred because the market neglected to consider pertinent economic …
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We view the entrepreneur as an agent who possesses human capital in the form of specific skills or talents. When she starts a firm, her human capital is essential to the firm and it has substantial private value. The entrepreneur transforms her human capital over time into what we call...
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The evidence shows that in most countries the present value of depreciation allowances is less than 100% of the cost of capital. In this article we use a real-option model with debt financing, and show that less favorable depreciation allowances are offset by tax benefits arising from debt...
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The power-to-take game is a simple two player game where players are randomly divided into pairs consisting of a take authority and responder. Both players in each pair have earned an income in an individual real effort decision-making experiment preceding the take game. The game consists of two...
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