cause investment to rise or fall. …

We examine how emission taxes should be refunded to firms in order to create optimal incentives to invest in cleaner …

This paper addresses the issue of how regulatory constraints affect firm s investment choices when the firm has an … option to delay investment. The RPI-x rule is compared to a profit sharing rule, which increases the x factor in case profits … go beyond a given level. It is shown that a pure price cap and profit sharing are identical in their impact on investment …

In this paper we offer an analysis of the effects of uncertainty about future tax policy on irreversible investment …. The main message of the paper is that investment is not much affected by the degreee of tax policy uncertainty. This is … that reducing tax policy uncertainty is probably no magic bullet to increase private investment spending …

We study the role of competition for the hold-up problem in foreign direct investment in resource-based industries. The … host country government is not only unable to commit not to expropriate investment ex post, but is also unable to commit to … higher investment levels and increases host country revenues, but hurts pro.ts of international investors. …