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We study whether CEO political ideology affected how S&P 500 firms reacted to the Covid-19 pandemic, an exogenous shock to demand and supply. We hypothesize that conservative CEOs are more likely to adopt shareholder-friendly than employee-friendly reactions to the pandemic. Hence, they should...
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In a continuous-time framework we study the technology and investment choice problem of a continuous co … flexible technology allowing for such option. Investment is irreversible and flexibility is costly. The problem is solved … determining in the light of future prospects the optimal revision and then playing backward fixing the investment timing rule …
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We introduce knowledge spillovers as an externality in the production function of competitive firms operating in a finite spatial domain under adjustment costs. Spillovers are spatial as productive knowledge flows more easily among firms located nearby. When knowledge spillovers are not...
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In the literature investigating the impact of uncertainty on short-run and long-run investment, most authors have used … general ones and has the advantage of providing closed form solutions for both short-run investment rule and long-run rate of …
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This paper provides a formal dynamic analysis of exploitation, class inequalities and profits. A stylised model of a capitalist economy with two classes - workers and capitalists - is considered which extends Roemer [21, 22]. First, a dynamic generalisation of a key Marxian insight is provided...
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perspective that focuses on capital accumulation with investment irreversibility. We show that if 1) direct irreversibility of … investment does not rule out the indirect channel of converting dirty capital goods into clean ones through final goods … environmental regulation, through directing investment towards clean capital, does not necessarily leads to asset stranding of dirty …
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exposure and, probably as a consequence, boards in carbon intensive companies use dividend policies to attract investment in …
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Market mechanisms are increasingly being used as a tool for allocating somewhat scarce but unpriced rights and resources, such as air and water. Tradable permits have emerged as the most cost effective measure leading to the emergence of both nationwide (SO2 ) and supranational (CO2 ) emission...
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Considered here is on-line portfolio management aimed at maximizing the long-run growth of financial wealth. The portfolio is repeatedly rebalanced in response to observed returns on diverse assets. Suppose statistical information and related methods are not available - or deemed too diffcult....
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