not rely on the “smooth-pasting condition.” An application to MacDonald and Siegel’s canonical investment problem (1986 …) shows that the standard investment threshold over-estimates the optimal threshold when the lower barrier is absorbing and …

From the model of Hobijn and Jovanovic (2001), we modelize a technological shock with uncertainty. We assume that this … technological shock appears in the shape of new firms. Only a part of these firms will be productive. Uncertainty relates to the … identification of the viable firms. This uncertainty decreases with the time and the diffusion of fundamentalist information that …

The role that Bernanke’s Bad News Principle plays in the modern theory of investment under uncertainty is analyzed. The … analysis shows that the actual investment dilemma is that by delaying investment firms trade off a higher present value of … earnings for a lower present value of the investment cost, in contrast to previous interpretations of this dilemma. The …

The effect that investment lags has on the uncertainty-investment relationship is studied by modifying the Bar-Ilan and … small, uncertainty affects investment negatively; (ii) A sufficiently large time lag engenders an inverse u …-shape relationship between the degree of uncertainty and the profit level that triggers investment; (iii) When such an inverse u- shape …

. Uniting Schumpeter's concern for innovation with Keynes' concern for uncertainty and expectations formation, this article … focuses on the behaviour of entrepreneurs confronting uncertainty caused by innovation. Entrepreneurs' behaviour is … opened up by a successful innovation generates a state of optimism in the minds of single entrepreneurs, which eventually …

In this paper, we examine net investment during the early stages of transition using micro data on the population of … models of investment and test if investment behavior varies across categories of ownership and with the legal status of firms …. Our analysis of depreciation leads us to the conclusion that replacement investment displays a similar pattern in many …

Limited liability debt financing of irreversible investments can affect investment timing through an entrepreneur … entrepreneur's unique investment opportunity, and it is shown in a standard model of irreversible investment that includes the … risks, and lowers the investment threshold. Compensating the lender for expected default losses reduces project …

The paper analyzes investment behavior of industrial enterprises in the period immediately following price and foreign … microeconomic decisions. A dynamic investment function with symmetric adjustment cost function based on the Euler equation has been … estimated. The derived and estimated investment function accounts for export sales in order to determine whether firms evaluate …