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firm-level capital investment, risk management, and debt issuance. The effects of uncertainty vary significantly by firm … capital investment is significantly weaker for firms that hedge their output price risk. Our analysis highlights that, in the … ability to hedge risk exposures …
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The levels of uncertainty surrounding construction projects are particularly high and construction managers should be aware that adequately managing the effects of the different types of uncertainty may lead to an increase in the overall performance of construction companies. The model proposed...
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Firms obtain noisy estimates of investors' required rates of return (discount rates) using market-based information. Discounted-cash-flow (DCF) methods, as commonly taught in MBA courses, lead to upward-biased estimates of project values in the presence of such noise, even when cash flow and...
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We study business uncertainty in high- versus low-volatility environments by surveying over 31,000 managers across 41 countries. We elicit subjective probability distributions for future own-firm sales and measure firm-level uncertainty with their mean absolute deviations. Analogously, we...
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how the agent’s risk attitude affects his decisions. This “Threshold Theory” framework is based on a real options approach … influence the agent’s risk attitude. The theory’s predictions help to explain many anomalies that the standard expected utility …In this paper we offer an alternative framework for examining why risk matters in the decisions of economic agents, and …
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's disposition towards realizing an investment project under risk aversion. We show that capital gains taxation often reduces this …
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&D outlays. Moreover, as predicted by the real options theory, our results suggest that product market uncertainty reduces R …
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's cost. When market risk increases, the equilibria can exist only when the firm is less certain …
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The socioeconomic impact of pollution naturally comes with uncertainty due to, e.g., current new technological developments in emissions' abatement or demographic changes. On top of that, the trend of the future costs of the environmental damage is unknown: Will global warming dominate or...
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We study the effects of uncertainty on corporate leverage adjustments with respect to investment spikes and find that overlevered and underlevered firms behave very differently in response to the combination of uncertainty and investment spikes. Overlevered firms facing high uncertainty converge...
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