This paper addresses the issue of how regulatory constraints affect firm s investment choices when the firm has an … option to delay investment. The RPI-x rule is compared to a profit sharing rule, which increases the x factor in case profits … go beyond a given level. It is shown that a pure price cap and profit sharing are identical in their impact on investment …

investment of endogenous size. Using a real option approach in continuous time, we show that profit sharing does not affect a … total investment. We also evaluate the reduction in the firm s value due to profit sharing, linking this reduction to the …

This paper addresses the issue of how regulatory constraints affect firm's investment choices when the firm has the … option to delay investment. The RPI-x rule is compared to a profit sharing rule, which increases the x factor in case profits … go beyond a given level. It is shown that these rules are identical in their impact on investment choices, in that the …

firms in making their investment decisions. We use a revealed preference approach that relies on the pattern of investment … spending - combined with investment theory - to estimate the discount rates used by managers. The standard story predicts that … firms with high stock prices and good investment opportunities should have discount rates that do not differ systematically …

frictions, relative prices, and adjustment costs in accounting for the MPK differential and document that adjustment costs …

The transmission channels through which monetary policy affects business investment remain opaque. This paper examines … the importance of the interest rate and credit channels on business fixed investment in Germany. We have at our disposal …