significant impact. Finally, either regulatory instrument may induce the highest technology investment levels. …

The paper studies the interaction between cyclical uncertainty and investment in a stochastic real option framework … of the link between cyclical uncertainty and investment is quantified using simulations of the model. The chief … shows that macroeconomic risk acts as an important deterrent to investments. …

variable is the particular decision stage at which a global risk is resolved: (i) before the investment decision; (ii) after … the investment decision but before the resolution of the investment risk; (iii) after the resolution of the investment … problem involves the presence of a “global risk”, that is, a chance of losing everything whichever safe or risky option is …

’s investment of endogenous size. Using a real option approach in continuous time, we show that profit sharing does not affect a … total investment. We also evaluate the reduction in the firm’s value due to profit sharing, linking this reduction to the …

Under conditions of risk it makes a difference whether the discount rate is determined as an expected present or as an …

We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to … mass index, are less likely to save money and show worse conduct at school. Experimental measures for risk and ambiguity …

This paper considers how optimal education and tax policy depends on the risk properties of human capital. It is … demonstrated that a key feature of human capital investments is whether they increase or decrease wage risk. In a benchmark model …

explore the design of policy. The model highlights the critical roles played by (i) the relationship between behavioural risk … preferences, standard risk aversion and labour supply behaviour, (ii) the risk properties of education, and (iii) the degree of …