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This book presents an up-to-date overview of the theory as well as the empirics of the relationship between investment …, the authors discuss both traditional investment models with uncertainty and the more modern option based models. They … present an overview of empirical results of the modelling of investment under uncertainty. In these examples, the effects of …
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City and regional governments as well as development agencies will learn from this report how to develop their own toolbox of instruments and structures for leveraging private finance. What role can private financing play in local economic development? To address this issue, this study draws on...
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The last two decades have seen a reshaping of the international economy together with a radical weakening in the conditions of the working class. New productive techniques and methods in the organization of labour have been implemented on a world-wide scale partly as a consequence of the...
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The amount of physical matter in the world is fixed and improvements to people's material circumstances are only created by their ability to reconfigure this matter. What distinguishes labour, and subsequently what allows for differing increments of value, are our capabilities, skills and...
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This book examines the significance of technological, organisational and institutional change as crucial factors in the analysis of the turnover time of capital. It also studies the related set of theoretical questions that concern the relationship between power, knowledge and time, in the...
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This book provides coherent theoretical and empirical analysis of firms' investment and financing decisions. It … results confirm theoretical precedents. Some firms are indeed financially constrained, for fixed investment as well as for R … firms to adopt a 'wait and see' strategy which eventually reduces investment, especially for irreversible investment …
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economic models -- 4. Investment : liquid real capital versus liquid assets -- 5. Why liquidity preference? -- 6. Financial … markets, liquidity and fast exits -- 7. Planned investment, planned savings, liquidity and economic growth -- 8. Complicating …
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catastrophic in their consequences. Therefore, the elaboration of effective risk-management plans, aimed at formulating viable … management of environmental risks - environmental pollution risk and natural catastrophe risk in particular. It discusses the … issue of insurability of such risks, analyses the increasing risk of liability for environmental pollution and the …
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