We study a buyer's optimal investment strategy for new technologies when costs evolve stochastically and are private … leads to delays in investment compared to the real option benchmark. We also suggest a payment structure that implements the … buyer's optimal investment timing as a Vickrey-type auction …

How does risk or uncertainty in the productivity of research affect the growth rate of the economy? To answer this …&D from profit-maximizing firms. The uncertainty arises from the productivity of these investments in R&D. The main result of … this analysis is that the relationship between long-run growth and uncertainty (on the productivity of knowledge creation …

uncertainty, firms that are credit constrained switch the composition of investment by reducing productivity-enhancing investment …We show that an increase in aggregate uncertainty - measured by stock market volatility - reduces productivity growth … difference-in-difference approach using productivity growth of 25 industries from 18 advanced economies over the period 1985 …

, consumption, physical and environmental investment, trading of emissions rights (quantity and price). The results show that … negatively affected by its presence as predicted by the theory (e.g. Clarke and Reed 1994; Tsur and Zemel 1996; and Bosello and …