Till recently the investment policy of India was overtly nationalistic. Today however everything seems to be changing …

This paper makes the case that the growth trajectory of the Indian economy in the post-1991 liberalization period is … 1980s. This instability is a result of an investment-growth asymmetry that flows from a combination of a services …-intensive growth pattern and a manufacturing-intensive investment pattern. These in turn reflect the pattern of demand expansion within …

probability of disaster leads to a collapse of investment and a recession, an increase in risk spreads, and a decrease in the … shocks to aggregate uncertainty, I introduce a small, time-varying risk of economic disaster in a standard real business … risk of disaster does not affect the path of macroeconomic aggregates - a "separation theorem" between macroeconomic …

consumption, portfolio allocation, financing, investment, and business exit decisions. The optimal capital structure is determined …. More risk-averse entrepreneurs default earlier, but also choose higher leverage, even though leverage makes his equity more … risky. Non-diversified entrepreneurs demand both systematic and idiosyncratic risk premium. Cash-out option and external …

investment. Uncertainty increases real option values making firms more cautious when investing or disinvesting. This is confirmed … both numerically for a model with a rich mix of adjustment costs, time-varying uncertainty, and aggregation over investment … investment response to demand shocks. This implies the responsiveness of firms to any given policy stimulus may be much lower in …

We re-examine the basic investment problem of deciding when to incur a sunk cost to obtain a stochastically fluctuating … benefit. The optimal investment rule satisfies a trade-off between a larger versus a later net benefit; we show that this … demand curve. We reinterpret the optimal investment rule as a markup formula involving an elasticity that has exactly the …

This study uncovers a statistically significant negative correlation between volatility and private investment over the … number of different measures, volatility reduces private investment in developing countries. We then show that the … continue to hold even if the coefficient of relative risk aversion approaches zero (that is, even if the marginal utility of …

The theoretical relationship between investment and uncertainty is ambiguous. This paper briefly surveys the insights … theoretical effects. Our results from a panel of U.S. manufacturing firms indicate a negative effect of uncertainty on investment … consistent with theories of irreversible investment. We find no evidence for a positive effect via the channel of the convexity …

This paper derives closed-form solutions for the investment and market value, under uncertainty, of competitive firms … irreversible investment as well as for reversible investment. Optimal investment is a non-decreasing function of q, the shadow … value of capital. The conditions of optimality imply that q cannot contain a bubble; thus, optimal investment depends only …

A recent literature suggests that because investment expenditures are irreversible and can be delayed, they may be … aggregate investment. We find that the volatility of the marginal profitability of capital - a summary measure of uncertainty … - affects investment as the theory suggests, but the size of the effect is moderate, and is greatest for developing countries …