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Accounting conservatism and managerial risk-taking: Corporate acquisitions

Kravet, Todd D. - In: Journal of Accounting and Economics 57 (2014) 2, pp. 218-240

Watts (2003) and Ball and Shivakumar (2005) argue that accounting conservatism decreases managerial incentives to make negative net present value investments. I develop and test a new hypothesis that accounting conservatism is associated with managers making less risky investments. I find that...

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Do property rights promote investment but cause deforestation? Quasi-experimental evidence from Nicaragua

Liscow, Zachary D. - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 65 (2013) 2, pp. 241-261

, arguing that property rights decrease discount rates applied to a long-term investment in forestry. However, the effect is … investment, increasing agricultural productivity and therefore the returns to deforestation. …

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Strategic choices for renewable energy investment: Conceptual framework and opportunities for further research

Wüstenhagen, Rolf; Menichetti, Emanuela - In: Energy Policy 40 (2012) C, pp. 1-10

This paper introduces the special issue on Strategic Choices for Renewable Energy Investment, which is a collection of …. Substantial private investment is needed if public policy objectives to increase the share of renewable energy and prevent … scholarly attention to the processes underlying strategic choices for renewable energy investment, and how they are influenced …

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The green paradox of the economics of exhaustible resources

Cairns, Robert D. - In: Energy Policy 65 (2014) C, pp. 78-85

curve. Technical features include the requirement to sink investment in productive capacity. A model of a profit …

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Diffusion of renewable heating technologies in households. Experiences from the Norwegian Household Subsidy Programme

Bjørnstad, Even - In: Energy Policy 48 (2012) C, pp. 148-158

stoves. The success of the programme was measured by the degree of overall satisfaction with the investment by the sampled … households. Theories on diffusion of innovations and planned behaviour motivate the empirical modelling of the investment …

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Carbon capture and storage—Investment strategies for the future?

Rammerstorfer, Margarethe; Eisl, Roland - In: Energy Policy 39 (2011) 11, pp. 7103-7111

investment project. In the second model, the convenience yield is allowed to follow a mean reverting process which seems to be … values. We found that given the recently observable prices for carbon dioxide, an investment into C O2-storage facilities is …

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The relationship between investment and large exchange rate depreciations in dollarized economies

Carranza, Luis; Galdon-Sanchez, Jose E.; … - In: Journal of International Money and Finance 30 (2011) 7, pp. 1265-1279

We use a simple financial friction in an economy with high degree of liability dollarization – and currency mismatch – to show that the negative balance-sheet effect of an exchange rate depreciation may be observable only if the magnitude of the depreciation is large enough. This result...

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Common currency for Asia “now or never”

Hayat, Khuhawar Khizer; Jianqiu, Zeng - In: Economic Modelling 35 (2013) C, pp. 170-174

investment, political and economic integration and investigates the benefits of a common currency by which the money inflows from …

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Electricity market opening impact on investments in electricity sector

Streimikiene, Dalia; Siksnelyte, Indre - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 29 (2014) C, pp. 891-904

The paper focuses on the impact of the electricity market regulation on generating technologies, including renewable in Lithuanian and Poland. The paper aims to identify how the regulatory and non-regulatory factors have influenced investors′ choices. A country case studies approach were...

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Economic analysis of investment in the rooftop photovoltaic systems: A long-term research in the two main markets

Spertino, Filippo; Di Leo, Paolo; Cocina, Valeria - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 28 (2013) C, pp. 531-540

Nowadays, due to incentive policies, the PhotoVoltaic (PV) installations become an economically attractive investment … the national budget, maintaining the economic margin of the investment attractive for investors, a progressive tariff …

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