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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 … investment theory, professionals in the financial sector and students of macroeconomics and finance. Investment, Capital Market …, the authors discuss both traditional investment models with uncertainty and the more modern option based models. They …
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This thought provoking book is concerned with the need to deal adequately with uncertainty in environmental decision making. The author advances a critique of the use of traditional models and then develops an alternative model of decision making under uncertainty, based on the work of George...
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analysing capital investment choice as a process. The understanding of this process requires some modification and significant … adding to the existing thought in this area, with insights from game theory, rational choice under uncertainty and new … exposition of the risk/return trade-off and how major capital investment decisions are made within firms. Topics studied include …
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differing views regarding the role of economic theory as applied to the real world. William Greer reveals that the intellectual …
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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 … in closely controlled companies. In accordance with the real option theory, the results suggest that uncertainty leads …
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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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Industry Evolution', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 100 (1), 81-99. -- Schumpeter, Joseph A. (1934), Theory of Economic …-30 -- Clayton M. Christensen and Joseph L. Bower (1996), 'Customer Power, Strategic Investment, and the Failure of Leading Firms … Journal, 25, 909-28 -- Jack A. Nickerson and Todd R. Zenger (2004), 'A Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm - The Problem …
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