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The human capital represented by corporate employees involved in the information and knowledge economy is becoming an increasingly central value-creating factor in global competition. However, in contrast to other value-creating factors, human capital is more difficult to measure, evaluate and...
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We derive robust predictions on the effects of uncertainty on short run investment dynamics in a broad class of models … of the capital stock is ambiguous. An investment model is estimated to test these theoretical predictions using a panel …
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In this paper we analyse the impact of policy uncertainty on foreign direct investment strategies. The paper follows …
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's investment of endogenous size. Using a real option approach in continuous time, we show that profit sharing does not affect a … total investment. We also evaluate the reduction in the firm's value due to profit sharing, linking this reduction to the …
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The traditional marshallian rule of investing when the value of the investment is greater than its installment cost is … from the optimal timing of exercise of the investment and to herd behavior or informational cascades given that the agents …
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In this study, we experimentally analyze the investment behavior of smallholder farmers in Uganda. We consider a … options approach and the classical investment theory can predict farmers’ investment behaviors. We also examine differences in … the investment behavior with respect to the presence of a price floor, which is often used to stimulate investments …
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We estimate the effect of demand and price uncertainty on firms’ investment decisions from a panel of manufacturing … investment, while price uncertainty is insignificant. This is consistent with the behavior of monopolistic firms with … irreversible capital (Caballero, 1991). Further, firms revise their investment plans very little. They may do so in response to new …
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The paper considers the problem of evaluating the probability of investing in a capital-investment project as a measure … of the uncertainty-investment relationship in a real option model. By the use of the contingent claims analysis the …
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The role of product market reforms in achieving the objective of higher employment and growth has recently received much attention amongst academics. The aim of this paper is to analyse some of the channels through which cross-market effects come about and to assess their policy relevance. The...
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The paper studies the interaction between cyclical uncertainty and investment in a stochastic real option framework … of the link between cyclical uncertainty and investment is quantified using simulations of the model. The chief …
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