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 …

find that policy uncertainty raises stock price volatility and reduces investment and employment in policy … foreshadow declines in investment, output, and employment in the United States and, in a panel VAR setting, for 12 major …

future oil price volatility derived from the NYMEX futures options market. Using a dynamic model of firms' investment problem …

We argue that positive co-movements between land prices and business investment are a driving force behind the broad … joint dynamics of land prices and business investment …

We propose an empirical implementation of the consumption-investment problem using the martingale representation … simplifies the investor's task of specifying the investment opportunity set and inherits the computational convenience of the … and probabilities, which generate variation in consumption, and the consumption smoothing induced by risk aversion. Using …

We use the World Bank decomposition of aggregate investment shares into their private and public components to test for … the correlation between volatility and investment in a set of developing countries. We uncover a statistically significant … negative correlation between various volatility measures and private investment, even when adding the standard control …

The investment theory, in which the expected return varies cross-sectionally with investment, expected profitability …