Der "überregulierte" deutsche Arbeitsmarkt gilt als eine der Hauptursachen für die diagnostizierte Standortschwäche. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird ein realoptionstheoretischer Ansatz gewählt, um den Einfluss von Arbeitsmarktregulierungen auf Standortentscheidungen zu analysieren. Die...

In this article, we analyse the optimal investment decision in a new health care technology of a representative hospital that maximises its surplus in an uncertain environment. The new technology allows the hospital to increase the quality level of the care provided, but the investment is...

This paper examines the effect of competition on the irreversible investment decisions under uncertainty as a generalization of the "real option" approach. We examine this issue with reference to an industry where each firm has only one investment opportunity which is completely irreversible and...

Real options theory applies techniques known from finance theory to the valuation of capital investments. The present paper investigates further into this analogy, considering the case of a portfolio of real options. An implementation of real option models in practice will mostly be concerned...