This paper investigates a regulated company's capacity choices for a two-stage investment opportunity with growth … specific investment behavior can be observed: Companies will first invest a small capacity in order to enter the market, but … which influences their investment decisions. It has been shown in previous research that especially a cost based …

We show that the effect of eviction threats on unobservable investment effort can be positive. We demonstrate this … apparently counter-intuitive result in a model of tenancy where investment by a tenant in the current period raises the chances … attractive for him to elicit investment effort. However, there is a direct negative effect of eviction threats on the tenant …

the costs associated with investment in fiber-optic networks are likely recoverable in some markets, but that there is a … large gap between social and private incentives to invest …

the present value of the returns from an initial investment of [1pound], using the social discount rate, should be equal … revisions in evaluating the neutrality of different incentives. Another point we would make is that Boadway's results depend … these important elements of the problem, general results about the neutrality of different incentives can no longer be …

resulting in lower profits for producers. Coupled with low profits, producers would incur high investment costs to install …