This paper investigates the R&D allocation and output decisions of a profit-maximising monopolist developing a science-based family of products or processes. A comparison of the numerical solution for a model with incremental product innovation, and that with incremental process innovation,...

Chronically, most of developing countries as exampled in Sudan suffer from the low levels of income in addition to the low savings that are result from the lack of savings channels. Hence, the investment depends on the individuals' abilities on savings, where the investment is considered as...

The purpose of the present paper is to describe the role of uncertainty and technical change in an environmental context. Which impact does ecological uncertainty have on physical and R&D investments' decisions? How are pollution trajectories modified when uncertainty is taken into account? To...

The purpose of the present paper is to describe the role of uncertainty and technical change in an environmental context. Which impact does ecological uncertainty have on physical and R&D investments' decisions? How are pollution trajectories modified when uncertainty is taken into account? To...

This paper examines the where, when and why of first round entrepreneurial investment activity in the United States from the first quarter of 1995 until the second quarter of 2010. The paper analyzes these venture capital investments taking into consideration the role of macroeconomic variables,...

Treating the potential endogeneity problems of the empirical specifications in prior studies, I employ a dynamic multi-equation model in which firms make interdependent decisions in financing, investment, and distribution, under the constraint that sources and uses of cash must be equal. I argue...

An analytical framework is developed to study the repercussions between endogenous capital- and labor-saving technical change and population aging. Following an intuition often attributed to Hicks (1932), I ask whether and how population aging aff ects the relative scarcity of factors of...

An analytical framework is developed to study the repercussions between endogenous capital- and labor-saving technical change and population aging. Following an intuition often attributed to Hicks (1932), I ask whether and how population aging aff ects the relative scarcity of factors of...

An analytical framework is developed to study the repercussions between endogenous capital- and labor-saving technical change and population aging. Following an intuition often attributed to Hicks (1932), I ask whether and how population aging affects the relative scarcity of factors of...

An investment vehicle for production modernization has been introduced taking into account specifics of company activities in Russia. This vehicle comes with a procedure for analyzing practicability of plant replacement, which may be applied to expediency consideration with regard to replacement...