Estimation of the employment effects of changes in capital investment is a standard tool in public policy debates. Typically, such predictions are based on employment multipliers derived from Input-Output analysis. In this paper, we measure the employment effects of changes in capital investment...

Purpose: Prior studies suggest that an informative stock price helps corporate investment decisions. Since short-selling improves the informativeness of stock prices, short-selling could influence corporate investment. This study examines this conjecture. Design/methodology/approach: Using...

This article uses a nonparametric production frontier approach to investigate the operating efficiency differences by the impacts of capital expenditure and business model in the global semiconductor industry. Handling the impact of capital expenditure as a fixed input by the directional...

The transition of the steel sector to carbon neutrality requires significant investment. In this study, we aim to better understand the scale of investment required for a transition to hydrogen-based steelmaking and the ability of listed steelmakers to finance this investment. First, we analyze...

This paper is a case study which examines the finances of a proposed installation schedule of 500MW of a wave energy device type in Ireland. The novel aspects of the analysis were the modelling of the combined influence of learning curves, supply and demand rates as well as future cost of cash...