Die FIFA Fußball-WM 2006 hat in Deutschland einen Boom bei Stadioninvestitionenausgelöst. Eine zweite Welle ist derzeit bei mittelgroßen Projekten zu beobachten, mit denenkleinere Bundesligisten und Zweitligisten den Anschluss an die Top-Klubs zu halten versuchen.[...]

Investment policy is a central issue in foundations. The capital stock of a foundationand its long-term retention are prerequisites of a foundation’s perpetuity and independence. Afoundation’s goals can only be reached with the funds generated by the foundation’s investmentmanagement.[...]

Spätestens die Vergabe der Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2006 hat in Deutschland einenSportstadien-Bauboom verursacht. Dieser erscheint auch nötig, um die veraltete deutsche Stadion-Infrastrukturwieder internationalen Standards anzugleichen. Jedoch treffen diese gestiegenen Investitionswünsche...

An underinvestment problem arises if an additional investment project with positive net presentvalue increases only the market value of debt, but not of equity. As a way out the shift ofthe additional investment project and possibly also other projects to a subsidiary is considered.From the...

Real world investment decisions are generally made sequentially over time. The possibility of subsequent decisions like suspending a project must be considered when an initial investment decision is made....

This paper investigates the influence of a firm's financial status on the within-firm allocation of funds, reected in its plant-level investment and exit decisions.

Theories of investment suggest that the option value of waiting to invest is significant in many branches of economics, where investment is irreversible. The existing literature has generally failed to account for the general equilibrium feedback effects of lumpy investments on optimal...

This paper empirically examines whether additional future xed capital and R&D investmentexpenditures induce rms to accumulate cash reserves while considering therole of market imperfections. Implementing a dynamic framework on a panel of US, UKand German companies, we nd that rms make larger...

We develop a model of real investment and cash holdings in which firms face uncertaintyregarding their ability to raise funds in the capital markets and have to search for investorswhen raising outside capital. We provide an explicit characterization of the optimal investment,cash management,...

In this paper we study a continuous time, optimal stochastic investment problem under limited resources in a market with N firms. The investment processes are subject to a time-dependent stochastic constraint. Rather than using a dynamic programming approach, we exploit the concavity of the...