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The irreversibility premium
Chirinko, Robert S.; Schaller, Huntley - 2008
When investment is irreversible, theory suggests that firms will be "reluctant to invest." This reluctance creates a … wedge between the discount rate guiding investment decisions and the standard Jorgensonian user cost (adjusted for risk). We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264335
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Modelling the "option value of waiting" : more evidence on the costs of intra-European exchange rate volatility
Belke, Ansgar; Gros, Daniel - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000979562
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Evidence on the costs of intra-European exchange rate variability
Belke, Ansgar; Gros, Daniel - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000965782
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[Sigma]: the long and short of it
Chirinko, Robert S. - 2008
Research on the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor - ó - has been proceeding for 75 years. While there is clearly a strong case for the importance of ó in the analysis of growth and other economic issues, much less agreement exists on the value of ó. This paper offers some...
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The marginal product of capital: a persistent international puzzle
Chirinko, Robert S.; Mallick, Debdulal - 2008
Large and sustained differences in marginal products of capital (MPKs) across countries are sharply at odds with the core implications of the neoclassical framework. Lucas (1990) and many subsequent studies have examined reasons for this MPK differential. In a recent contribution, Caselli and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264438
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Do bubbles lead to overinvestment? A revealed preference approach
Chirinko, Robert S.; Schaller, Huntley - 2011
firms in making their investment decisions. We use a revealed preference approach that relies on the pattern of investment … spending - combined with investment theory - to estimate the discount rates used by managers. The standard story predicts that … firms with high stock prices and good investment opportunities should have discount rates that do not differ systematically …
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