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This Paper investigates the empirical relationship between uncertainty and investment dynamics. This is motivated by … uncertainty, as firms place a greater value on the option to wait. Using simulated data we show that this more cautious behaviour … can be detected as a smaller impact of sales growth on investment for firms facing higher uncertainty. Using a stock …
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Quarantine policy reviews are becoming more sophisticated following the Uruguay Round’s Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures and, in Australia’s case, following also the 1996 Nairn Report. Yet they still focus primarily on the effects of restrictions just on...
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investments of banks at the security level for 2005-2012 in conjunction with the credit register from Germany. Analyzing data at … increase their overall investments in securities, especially in those that had a larger price drop. The quantitative effects …
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productivity and human capital investments. Using light intensity as an alternative measure for economic activity confirms the …
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This Paper studies the optimal policies of borrowers (firms or individuals) who may default subject to default costs, and analyses the asset pricing implications. Borrowers defaulting under adverse economic conditions may, despite incurring default costs, emerge as wealthier than non-borrowers...
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investments. …
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The stabilisation of GHG atmospheric concentrations at levels expected to prevent dangerous climate change has become an important, global, long-term objective. It is therefore crucial to identify a cost-effective way to achieve this objective. In this paper we use WITCH, a hybrid...
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) investments for EMU-firms have grown 2.5% more than for non-EMU firms, after 1999; and (ii) the benefits of the euro accrue …
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We analyze the impact of mandatory access on the infrastructure investments of two competing communications networks …
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frictions, both parties in a match are partially locked-in when they bargain over the joint surplus from their sunk investments … case of investments in homogenous capital only the agents on the short side acquire ownership of capital. There is always …
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