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reverting processes are rarely used in investment models in the literature. In most models, geometric Brownian motion processes … investigations of aggregate industry investment …
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This paper deals with capital budgeting decisions under uncertainty. We present an Aggregate Return On Investment (AROI … constitutes a link between arbitrage choice theory and corporate investment theory, and shows that explicit discounting is not …
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, uncertainty reduces corporate investment and employment. Using a novel firm-level measure of cash flow uncertainty, we find … empirically that uncertainty has a strong negative impact on corporate employment and investment in both tangible and intangible …, investment in tangibles would increase by 1.54%, and investment in intangibles would increase by1.29%. Our findings are robust to …
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of policy uncertainty on firms' investment decisions. We focus on … this country. We find strong evidence that policy uncertainty reduces corporate investment. Furthermore, the heterogeneous … decrease investment significantly more than their counterparts. Overall, these results are consistent with the hypotheses that …
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explore corporate data to investigate how economic uncertainty affected investment, dividend payouts and cash holdings, based … of England. These data demonstrate that heightened economic uncertainty lowered investment even after controlling for … investment opportunities, sales growth, and the firm's own stock volatility. Economic uncertainty also explains the rise in cash …
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In this paper, we analyze the effect of financial uncertainty on corporate investment using firm-level panel data from … the Republic of Korea. We find that financial uncertainty has a significant negative effect on corporate investment, and … investment irreversibility amplify the negative effect of uncertainty. The inverted U-shaped curve of the uncertainty effect …
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between firm-level capital investment and the aggregate level of uncertainty associated with future policy and regulatory … outcomes. More importantly, we find evidence that the relation between policy uncertainty and capital investment is not uniform … in the cross section, being significantly stronger for firms with a higher degree of investment irreversibility and for …
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This article explores the economic effects of checks and balances on corporate investment and employment. I use U … political agenda. I find that both public and private firms respond to the political cycle by reducing investment and hiring … when government becomes unified. Investment drops by three to five percent in the year following an election resulting in …
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We derive a new equation for the optimal investment boundary of a general irreversible investment problem under … the Wiener-Hopf factorization allow us to derive an integral equation for the optimal investment boundary. In case the … underlying Lévy process hits any point in R with positive probability we show that the integral equation for the investment …
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