In this paper, we compare the attitude towards current risk of two expected-utility-maximizing investors that are identical except that the first investor will live longer than the second one.

This paper studies the design of financial agreements (claims, tightness of relationships) between entrepreneurs and investors, in the case where both must exert costly unobservable efforts to improve the profitability of the firm.

This paper studies irreversible investment decisions of a risl neutral regulated firm which has costs of production and of investment known with certainty and constant over time, but subject to uncertainty on exogenous shocks to demand. These shocks follow a geometric Brownian motion. No...

This paper studies optimal investment in different types of electric plants. Neither future fuel prices nor future demand are known. Furthermore, we take into account explicitly the problems of management of the peak load and of the decrease of efficiency of plants used for long periods. A two...

This paper extends the theory of irreversible investment under uncertainty to incorporate capacity constraints and uncertainty on the input price. In addition, no restriction on the demand elasticity value is imposed. Assuming input price follows a geometric Brownian motion, the optimal...

In this paper, we develop a continuous time duopoly model of irreversible investment under uncertainty, where each player may learn about the profitability of an investment by observing the experience of his rival, as well as some costless background information. We show that the resulting war...