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 …

subsidies. -- Labor taxation ; human capital investment ; education subsidies ; idiosyncratic risk ; risk properties of human …

policies unilaterally, innovation is fostered, at the margin, only by the R&D subsidy. The patent box tax rate is instead …

investment of endogenous size. Using a real option approach in continuous time, we show that profit sharing does not affect a … total investment. We also evaluate the reduction in the firm s value due to profit sharing, linking this reduction to the …

business investment. To promote economic convergence of Eastern and Western Germany after reunification, bonus depreciation tax … control group, we address the question if and to what extent these investment tax incentives boosted investment. In line with … were cut back in 1997. Moreover, there was a significant reduction in building investment in the year after the expiration …

We investigate the potential for statistical forecasting of aggregate oil and gas investment on the Norwegian … random walk benchmark in an out-of-sample environment. Second, lags of investment growth, crude oil price growth and realized … volatility is found to be adequate predictors for the investment growth. Finally, there is a clear benefit from re-estimating the …

. Therefore, in an inflationary period generous tax depreciation provisions do not promote private investment as designed, but …

The investment-intensive growth model of the People's Republic of China (PRC) is often viewed as state-driven and … ultimately unsustainable. But largely unnoticed, a shift has taken place. This paper examines the changes in investment patterns … economy-wide data with various breakdown. Significant shifts in investment patterns across sectors and ownership forms have …

This paper analyzes the impact of particular loss offset limitations on intrastate and crossborder investment decisions …. Investment can be realized in the investor's domestic business, in a foreign branch or in a foreign subsidiary. The relative … impact on the optimal real investment alternative compared to the optimal financial investment alternative indicates the …