impact of economic risk and risk preferences upon regional allocation of investments. The source of risk stems from the … upon the firms' risk preferences. As a result regional agglomeration of investments may occur although the objective of the … elasticity of risk aversion. Elements of risk preferences beyond risk aversion prove to be very important to evaluate regional …

Instruments of risk mitigation play an important role in managing country risk within the foreign direct investment … (FDI) decision. Our study assesses country risk by state-dependent preferences and introduces futures contracts as a tool … of risk mitigation. We show that country risk assessments related to foreign direct investment do not matter if the …

uncertainty. The firm faces additional sources of uncertainty that are aggregated into a background risk. We show that the firm … always chooses its optimal debt-equity ratio to minimize the weighted average cost of capital, irrespective of the risk …. When the background risk is either additive or multiplicative, we provide reasonable restrictions on the firm's preferences …