emissions. In the near-term, R&D investments, either by government or the private sector, can bring down the costs of these … technologies under uncertainty. Specifically, given two technologies, one with lower costs at present, but the other with greater …

. Examining the within-industry range of variation (max.-min.) of the number of firms over our sample period, the low and high … reveals that (1) the typical industry experiences significant fluctuations in the number of firms and (2) there are large … cross-industry differences in this dimension. Theory suggests several potential factors that might explain this dispersion …

This paper analyses the stochastic behaviour of Private Equity returns (a measure of profitability) applying fractional …

We examine the profitability of cross-ownership in an oligopolistic industry where firms compete as Cournot rivals. We … over to the case of non-renewable resource industries. The profitability of a symmetric cross-ownership can be positive …

. These findings indicate that profitability concerns, while absent from standard theoretical models of central banking, are …

We quantify the impacts of droughts in New Zealand on the profitability of dairy, and sheep and beef farms. Using a …

uncertain costs. It is found that with supply function competition, and in contrast to Bayesian Cournot competition … private signals or more correlation among the costs parameters. In fact, for large values of noise or correlation supply …

A finite number of sellers (n) compete in schedules to supply an elastic demand. The costs of the sellers have … with more noise in the private signals or more correlation among the costs parameters. In fact, for large values of noise …

Exploiting the exogenous variation in childcare costs caused by a Swedish childcare reform, we are able to identify the … causal effect of childcare costs on fertility in a context in which childcare enrollment is almost universal, user fees are … low, and the labor force participation of mothers is very high. Anticipation of a reduction in childcare costs increased …