To Buy or Not to Buy? Uncertainty, Irreversibility, and Heterogeneous Investment Dynamics in Italian Company Data.

This study tests for the presence of real options effects induced by uncertainty and (partial) irreversibility on fixed capital investment using Italian company data. Our approach recognizes that firm-level investment spending may, itself, be aggregated over multiple investment decisions in separate...

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Bibliografski detalji
Glavni autori: Bond, S, Lomardi, D
Format: Working paper
Jezik:English
Izdano: IMF 2004