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This paper identifies endogenous and exogenous indicators of firms' investment activity, and examine, in particular …, the effect that these variables have in co-determining firms' investment decisions. Two channels of spillovers from …
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emerging markets. The paper measures the risk of short-term exposure by estimating, at the firm level, the effect on investment … not find that this reduction in net worth translates into a drop in investment. …
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The real options tradition originally predicted a decreasing relationship between uncertainty and investment, through … probability is not the best measure of investment. The sign of the total effect is again ambiguous. This ambiguity is illustrated …
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investment - results that are consistent with the model's predictions. …
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We investigate the cost of capital in a model with an agency conflict between inside managers and outside shareholders. Inside ownership reflects the classic tradeoff between incentives and risk diversification, and the severity of agency costs depends on a parameter representing investor...
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Recent theoretical developments relating to investment under uncertainty have highlighted the importance of … irreversibility for the timing of investment expenditures and their expected returns. This has subsequently stimulated a growing … empirical literature which examines uncertainty and threshold effects of investment behaviour. This paper presents a review of …
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Theoretical models point at various channels of the impact of inflation on corporate investment. This article attempts … corporate investment and inflation on the sample of 21 OECD countries in the years 1960-2005. The obtained negative relationship … this relationship: the marginal effect on corporate investment is higher at inflation rates between 3 and 5.5 per cent …
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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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financially turbulent periods in the 2000s in making investment decisions and in meeting demand for liquidity. A rise in … uncertainty regarding the ability to obtain external funds may have induced firms to rely on internal funds to finance investment … activities. Therefore, we shed light on the cash flow sensitivity of investment and cash holdings by estimating firm- level …
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In this paper we study a continuous time, optimal stochastic investment problem under limited resources in a market … with N firms. The investment processes are subject to a time-dependent stochastic constraint. Rather than using a dynamic …
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