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Irreversible Investment, Capital Costs and Productivity Growth : Implications for Telecommunications

Bernstein, Jeffrey I. - 2010

This paper develops a model incorporating costly disinvestment and estimates the associated commitment premium required to invest in telecommunications. Results indicate that the irreversibility premium raises the opportunity cost of capital by 70 percent. This implies an average annual hurdle...

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Investment, Depreciation, and Capital Utilization

Bernstein, Jeffrey I.; Nadiri, M. Ishaq - 2021

interdependence with investment decisions. The approach is based on the view that the flow of undepreciated capital is an output to be …. Often this problem is ignored in the theory of investment, not only because depreciation is exogenous, but also due to the …

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Financing and Investment in Plant and Equipment and Research and Development

Bernstein, Jeffrey I.; Nadiri, M. Ishaq - 2021

investment demands and the elasticities are highly inelastic. The effect is stronger for P&E than for R&D capital in the long run …, while the effects on P&E and R&D investment are quite similar in the short run …

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