This paper investigates how competition and firm size affect the relationship between market uncertainty and R …&D investment. We use an intuitively appealing measure of firm-specific uncertainty along with panel data to show that firms invest …&D investment is smaller in concentrated markets – those where market power is higher and strategic rivalry is more intense. Further …

recognizing that firms make substantial investment in intangible assets such as R&D, design, advertising etc. These investments … are not classified as investment in the National Accounts, where only tangible assets are defined as investment. This … paper provides estimates of investment in intangible assets and uses the growth accounting framework to analyze the Swedish …

appears unaffected: investment rates are flat, and productivity has slowed down. We investigate whether measurement issues … as intermediate consumption. Thus they do not count as either GDP or investment. We ask how treating such spending as … investment affects some key macro variables, namely, market sector gross value added (MGVA), business investment, capital and …

'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 …

We study the implications of product market competition and investment for price setting, wage bargaining and thereby … market competition will reduce equilibrium unemployment, whereas the effect of increased capital intensity is more complex …

encroacher's valuation of the asset is increasing in the asset owner's investment. Due to incomplete property rights, the … encroacher and asset owner engage in a contest over the control of the asset after investment has taken place. A standard result … is that the asset owner will underinvest in the asset relative to the first-best level of investment when property rights …

analysis to investment decisions of strategic firms that anticipate competition on many consecutive spot markets with … fluctuating (and possibly uncertain) demand. We study how the degree of spot market competition affects investment incentives and … analysis of investment incentives is still missing. Existing models, as the peak-load-pricing approach, analyze welfare optimal …