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Risk and risk preferences belong to the key determinants of investment-based technology adoption in agriculture. We … stochastic dynamic farm-level model to quantify the effect of both risk and risk aversion on the timing and scale of agricultural … technology adoption. Our illustrative example on short rotation coppice adoption shows that risk aversion leads to technology …
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ensures that the flexible risk response concept under conditions of improbable uncertainty is taken into account when …
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This study examines the strategic investment and divestment decisions of fifteen Norwegian power companies that were made in response to an increasingly uncertain business environment. The objective is to investigate the rationales underlying decisions for strategic renewal through the lens of...
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This paper considers investment problems in real options with non-homogeneous two-factor uncertainty. We derive some analytical properties of the resulting optimal stopping problem and present a finite difference algorithm to approximate the firm’s value function and optimal exercise boundary....
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We consider a real options model for the optimal irreversible investment problem of a profit maximizing company. The company has the opportunity to invest into a production plant capable of producing two products, of which the prices follow two independent geometric Brownian motions. After...
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This research investigates the impact of economic policy uncertainty on renewable energy innovation, based on a panel of 22 countries during the period 1985-2019. The results indicate that economic policy uncertainty exerts a positive effect on renewable energy innovation that lasts for at least...
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Applying the real options valuation to measure merger and acquisition (M&A) synergy is highly debatable, with questions arising from the usefulness of this approach in real-world settings. Understanding the full benefits (and possible limits) of real options applications to measure synergy in...
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