Market sentiment and firm investment decision-making

The Effect Of Salvage Market On Strategic Technology Choice And Capacity Investment Decision Of Firm Under Demand Uncertainty

Market Liberalization, Regulatory Uncertainty, and Firm Investment

Motivated by the German postal market, this paper analyzes the effects of regulatory uncertainty about labor costs for investment into a liberalized market. We distinguish between the external investment margin (market entry) and the internal investment margin (technology) and establish that regulatory uncertainty affects these margins differently, encouraging market entry but discouraging inve...

Fuzzy Investment Decision Making

Recent literature on fuzzy numbers is rich of several approaches to approximate operations between fuzzy numbers. The desirable feature is to preserve the real shape of the fuzzy numbers resulting from the operations, without loosing in simplicity and applicability and in goodness of the approximations. In some recent papers we introduce a representation of the fuzzy numbers, based on the use o...

Accounting Measurement Basis, Market Mispricing, and Firm Investment Efficiency

In this paper, we investigate how the accounting measurement basis affects the capital market pricing of a firm’s shares, which, in turn, affects the efficiency of the firm’s investment decisions. We distinguish two broad bases for accounting measurements: input-based and output-based accounting. We argue that the structural difference in the two measurement bases leads to a systematic differen...

Real Options and Investment Decision Making

Real options analysis seeks to value flexibility in investment opportunities – both the flexibility offered to management once the investment is undertaken, and the flexibility of delaying the investment through time. The real options approach contrasts with the standard approach to investment decision making, the net present value (NPV) approach, which assumes the investment opportunity is a n...