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A man is a key subject of economics. “A man is irrational” - this opinion can be made from Allais paradox, risk …
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stereotype of risk averse and less competitive older employees. …
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With a market entry game inspired by Camerer and Lovallo (1999), we study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition. Seniors exhibit higher entry rates compared to juniors, especially when the market capacity is not too low or when earnings from...
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in investment and in the current account, in line with em- pirical evidence, only if the traded sector is more capital …
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around 20 per cent of the sample (firms facing a high risk of bankruptcy, firms belonging to the capital goods sector, firms … run contemporaneous elasticities of investment with respect to interest rate through the user cost and through debt …
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, gas, and renewable power plants). It finds that optimal investment in renewable energy may start before coal power has … been phased out and even before investment in gas has started, because doing so allows for smoothing investment over time … and reduces adjustment costs. Gas plants may be used to reduce short-term investment in renewable power and associated …
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improve investment profile and therefore improving business climate. Furthermore, Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC …
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The choice of a portfolio of technologies by risk averse firms is analyzed. Two technologies with random marginal costs … fferent, and diff erence in risk aversion can explain a full specialization of the industry, the less risk averse fi rms using … the low cost technology and the more risk averse fi rms the other one. The framework is used to discuss the issue of …
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represented by the decrease in entropy of his beliefs, regardless of his preferences, initial wealth, or investment problem. We …
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adjustment costs on investment. …
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