Empirical evidence shows that entrepreneurs on average do not earn more than paid employees in terms of the net present value (NPV). One natural question is what makes the entrepreneurs to stay in business. To address this question, we propose a continuous time real options model in which an...

Empirical and experimental evidence documents that money illusion is persistent and widespread. This paper incorporates money illusion into two stochastic continuous-time monetary models of endogenous growth. Motivated by psychology, we model an agent's money illusion behavior by assuming that...