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Investment, capital market imperfections, and uncertainty : theory and empirical results
Lensink, Robert; Bo, Hong; Sterken, Elmer - 2001
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473824
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Uncertainty and the environment : implications for decision making and environmental policy
Young, Richard A. - 2001
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851362
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Capital and uncertainty : the capital investment process in a market economy
Runge, Ian Charles - 2000
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473863
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Ethics and uncertainty : the economics of John M. Keynes and Frank H. Knight
Greer, William B. - 2000
differing views regarding the role of economic theory as applied to the real world. William Greer reveals that the intellectual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474106
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Financial markets, money, and the real world
Davidson, Paul - 2002
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851209
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Global money, capital restructuring, and the changing patterns of labour
Bellofiore, Riccardo (ed.) - 1999
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473854
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The economics of intangible investment
Webster, Elizabeth - 1999
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473855
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The economics of power, knowledge, and time
Javary, Michèle - 2002
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474123
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Firms' investment and finance decisions : theory and empirical methodology
Butzen, Paul (ed.); Fuss, Catherine (ed.) - 2003
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474152
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The evolution of economic institutions : a critical reader
Hodgson, Geoffrey Martin (contributor) - 2007
, the nature and role of markets, and the theory of institutional evolution. The book not only outlines cutting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420017