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We investigate the impacts of electricity market restructuring on fuel efficiency, utilization and, new to this area, cost of coal purchases among coal-fired power plants using a panel data set from 1991 to 2005. Our study focuses exclusively on coal-fired power plants and uses panel data...
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taxes on investment timing under uncertainty and irreversibility and the propensity to carry out risky projects. Using a …-induced changes in investment timing may significantly affect the income and wealth distribution. We analyze the impact of wealth …-risk investments. Using either historical cost or fair value accounting may affect investment timing ambiguously. Thus, the design of …
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We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based … stock price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that greater uncertainty has a negative impact on growth of … non-existent or weaker. Our results suggest that to truly understand the effects of uncertainty on employment dynamics, we …
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The paper studies the interaction between cyclical uncertainty and investment in a stochastic real option framework … of the link between cyclical uncertainty and investment is quantified using simulations of the model. The chief …
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uncertainty over this migration upper bound may improve the government's control on migration inflows (quotas). This could explain …
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, to value the flexibility time to realize the development phase, we consider the American-Exchange type options …The real option theory provides a useful tool to evaluate an R&D investment under uncertainty because, unlike the NPV … (Net Present Value), it considers the managerial flexibility that may be expand the investment opportunity value. However …
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We show that the impact of government bailouts (liquidity injections) on a representative bank's risk taking depends on the level of systematic risk of its loans portfolio. In a model where bank's output follows a geometric Brownian motion and the government guarantees bank's liabilities, we...
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reductions in the next few years. The central twist of this paper is the addition of this limited time to act into a non …-perpetual real options framework analyzing optimal climate policy under uncertainty. The window-of-opportunity modelling setup shows … that the limited time to act may spark a trend reversal in the direction of low-carbon alternatives. However, the …
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As the time of leaving school determines the level of academic achievement this timing decision is central for the … under uncertainty and irreversibility. Unlike other approaches we include accumulative schooling costs, and provide a full …
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The underlying model analyzes the first time foreign market entry decision of a representative investor who can choose … introduction of productivity growth increases the likeliness of first time market entry through FDI. If the firm is confronted with … uncertain productivity growth, market entry through FDI increases even further. Uncertainty is identified as a compounding force …
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