We investigate firms' optimal investment timing and capacity decisions in the presence of time-to-build and competition. Due to the uncertainty in time-to-build, the product of the leader who makes the first investment might enter the market later than that of the follower. We show that a firm...

The paper investigates risk attitudes among different types of individuals. We use several di erent measures of risk attitudes, including questions on choices between uncertain income streams suggested by Barsky et al. (1997) and a number of ad hoc measures. As in Barsky et al. (1997) and...

We propose a new methodology to build portfolios that hedge the economic and financial risks from climate change. Our quantity-based approach exploits information on how mutual fund managers trade in response to idiosyncratic changes in their climate risk beliefs. We exploit two types of...