The purpose of this paper is to examine empirically the real options to shutdown, startup, and abandon existing production assets using detailed information for 1,121 individual power plants for the period 2001--2009, a total of 8,189 plant-year observations. We find strong evidence of real...

We examine whether regulatory uncertainty encourages firms to delay capital investment decisions. The case of electricity market deregulation in the U.S is unique because the period of regulatory uncertainty is long-lived and there are data available on planned future investments. These...

How does currency return volatility evolve over time and what are the properties of volatility dynamics? What forms of non-linearities are admitted in the drift and diffusion functions? The purpose of this study is to estimate a large class of volatility processes and explore these issues using...

This paper uses high frequency wholesale electricity spot price data from Australia, Canada, and the United States to estimate realized volatility and the frequency of price spikes. I find similar levels of realized volatility in Australia and North America, with estimates ranging from 1,500% to...