finds that higher savings by more frugal households provide an important cushion for the fall in private investment funding. …

important but often neglected element of micro- and macroeconomic theory. With the onset of the financial crisis in 2007 and the … of uncertainty in macroeconomic models against the background of the theory of real option values, with a strong focus on … crisis. Within a partial investment model, two kinds of uncertainty are introduced: volatility and disaster risk. The article …