This paper tests for the importance of cash flow on investment in fixed capital and R&D using firm-level panel data in … investment or R&D. In identical specifications for British firms, cash flow is informative about investment, although not about … the level of R&D spending conditional on the R&D participation decision. In the UK, we also find that investment is less …

This paper uses a new data-set to examine how internal capital markets and foreign ownership affect investment. Our … data allow us to compare investment behaviour of listed subsidiaries with stand-alone firms while controlling for … investment opportunities of parent and subsidiary firms. We evaluate how the size of ownership and the geographical proximity of …

investment. Uncertainty increases real option values making firms more cautious when investing or disinvesting. This is confirmed … both numerically for a model with a rich mix of adjustment costs, time-varying uncertainty, and aggregation over investment … investment response to demand shocks. This implies the responsiveness of firms to any given policy stimulus may be much lower in …

even after controlling for investment, size, book-to-market and momentum as well as other known predictors of stock returns … forward looking in nature and thus informative about the firms’ expectations about future cash-flows and risk …-adjusted discount rates. The model implies that the investment rate and the hiring rate predicts stock returns because these variables …

Complex regulatory decisions about risk rely on the brokering of evidence between providers and recipients, and involve … risk science, decision psychology and computer simulation. A two-agent model that accounts for the sufficiency of evidence …

Risk-based regulation is becoming a familiar regulatory strategy in a wide range of areas and countries. Regulatory … attention tends to focus, at least initially, on high risks but low-risk regulatees or activities tend to form the bulk of the … survey-based research is used to develop a taxonomy of intervention strategies that may be useful in relation to low-risk …

experiences of online risk among children, the affordances of SNS lend support to this possibility, attracting much policy and … second hypothesis stated that SNS users with more digital competence will encounter more online risk than those with less …) will encounter more online risk than those with fewer risky practices: this too was supported by the data; thus what …

risk information in the global economy. The paper examines the current state of the financial risk framework, notes its … place. The proposed open-source financial risk model separates the dual function that internal risk models perform within … financial institutions, first to attempt to optimize the risk-return profile of mostly private economic rent-seeking entities …