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This paper studies a dynamic duopoly in which firms compete in the adoption of new technologies. The innovation process is exogenous to the firms. Both firms have the possibility to adopt a current technology or to wait for a better technology that arrives at an unknown point of time in the...
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Abstract: This paper suggests that contingent on the productivity level of the trade partner; international trade may create resource misallocation in less productive countries. It theoretically shows how the interaction between technology diffusion induced by trade and cross sectoral...
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This paper reconstructs the long-term development of retailing, including industrial, economic and social antecedents and consequences. Among other things, it includes innovation in the form of the emergence and diffusion of successive novel types of shop (including self-service), relations...
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This paper reconstructs the long-term development of retailing, including industrial, economic and social antecedents and consequences. Among other things, it includes innovation in the form of the emergence and diffusion of successive novel types of shop (including self-service), relations...
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Where is the productivity growth from the IT revolution? Why did the skill premium rise sharply in the early eighties? Were these phenomena related? This paper examines these questions in a general equilibrium model of growth. Technological progress in firms is driven by research aimed at...
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This paper considers the impact of investment cost asymmetry on the value and optimal real option exercise strategies … the level of asymmetry, a marginal increase in the investment cost of the firm with the cost disadvantage can increase … socially less desirable outcome than if one of the competitors has a significant investment cost disadvantage.Finally, we prove …
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economic environment on the investment decision of the firm.We propose a method to model the impact of a policy change on … investment behavior in which, contrary to the earlier models based on Poisson processes, uncertainty concerning the moment of the …) investment cost, which is, for instance, caused by a reduction in the investment tax credit.The firm has an incomplete …
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Several studies use the investment - cash flow sensitivity as a measure of financing constraints while some others … subject to less financing constraints relative to independent firms.Our results show strong investment - cash flow … investment models and estimation techniques.We investigate this finding further by analyzing the influence of various firm …
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This paper generalizes the theory of irreversible investment under uncertainty by allowing for risk averse investors in … aversion to examine the e ects of risk aversion, price uncertainty, and other parameters on the optimal investment decision ….We nd that risk aversion reduces investment, particularly if the investment size is large.Moreover, we nd that a rise in …
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