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-to-build window. We conclude that, while a higher quality advancement upon investment and a higher growth rate in market demand make …This paper investigates strategic investment policies in a duopolistic continuous-time real options game. Our … contribution is twofold, economic and methodological. The former is the recognition that, under fixed costs of investment and time …
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Drawing on the Carnegie tradition, this paper examines how the Greek government and its military apparatus handled an incident involving the islets of Imia, which led to a near-war with Turkey in 1996. This came about not merely as a result of escalating circumstances: there were failures in...
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We evaluate the impact of bank loans and start-up subsidies on the survival of the new firms. This work relies on the SINE94 survey that provides rich information on the entrepreneurs and their start-up projects. We use the propensity score matching methodology, in the case of multiple...
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In this paper we investigate to what extent firm investment in transition countries is sensitive to internal finance …
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Real options reasoning assumes timely and effective managerial decision-making yet does not address managers' ability to provide it. An attention-based view describes managerial behavior under varying structural conditions. I examine real options reasoning from an attention-based view. I develop...
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This paper provides an international comparison of the benefits of including real estate assets in mixed-asset portfolios. Real estate returns are desmoothed using a variant of the Geltner (1993) approach, and Bayes-Stein estimators are used to increase the stability of portfolio weight...
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Firms outsource business functions to focus on core competencies and cut operating expenses. However, companies must consider agency costs in determining the optimal staffing/outsourcing balance. Analysis of the views of corporate real estate managers and real estate service providers indicate...
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firms' investment ratio. Changes in user costs are significantly affected by changes in the monetary policy indicator. In … addition, firm specific balance sheet characteristics, such as the lagged cash stock to capital ratio influence the investment …, are more sensitive to user cost changes, sales growth and the lagged cash to capital ratio …
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Strategic restructuring of firms through investment is key to a transition from plan to market. Using data on … rationed. Given the large volume of non-performing bank loans to firms and the high rate of investment of large state owned and …
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This paper proposes a macro function of investment to capture the key determinants and explore the mechanism of the … determination of aggregate investment. The long-established empirical findings in the field are that investment and output are … strongly correlated while costs of capital have little correlation with investment. They are considered as unsuccessful because …
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