We analyse the effects of different regulatory schemes (price cap and profit sharing) on a firm's investment of …-up investment relative to a pure price cap scheme. Profit sharing does not necessarily affect total investment either, if the … optimally trigger tighter regulation: profit sharing should be less stringent in sectors where there are bigger investment …

This paper provides new evidence on the response of business investment to tax incentives. I use the variation provided … depreciation allowances applicable to investment undertaken outside the three main Mexican metropolitan areas. I show that … investment is very sensitive to changes in tax variables and interest rates, with an estimated elasticity of investment with …

risks. They also make it possible for poor households to satisfy their investment and consumption smoothing requirements …

This paper considers optimal investment behaviour when investment options evolve deterministically or stochastically … over time and investments are irreversible and indivisible. It extends the standard investment-under-uncertainty set …-up with a single investment option to the case of repeated options. Analytical solutions are derived for the deterministic …

aspects of economic activity often associated with globalisation - trade and investment liberalisation. Although the net … environmental effects of trade and investment liberalisation are not yet fully understood, the paper concludes that, deregulation …

reference to the influence of transfers on conditioned outcomes, such as schooling, health and investment. We do this by … as increased health outcomes. On the other hand, PROCAMPO is found to lead to increased investment in agriculture. The … longer-term (human capital) and medium term (productive) investment. Policy makers must consider both whether or not …

This paper analyzes a model of oligopolistic competition with ongoing investment. It incorporates the following models … as special cases: incremental investment, patent races, learning-by-doing, and network externalities. We investigate …

We examine the interplay of endogenous vertical integration and costreducing downstream investment in successive …, we establish the following main results: First, vertical integration increases own investment and decreases competitor … investment (intimidation effect). Second, asymmetric equilibria typically involve integrated firms that invest more into …

on own effort and negatively on the effort of competitors. Such auctions arise naturally in the context of investment games … strategic situation of a two-stage game with investment preceding homogenous Bertrand competition. We obtain overinvestment both …