Based on the theory of real options, this paper establishes a investment decision-making model that could evaluate the development of CCS considering some uncertainties: feed-in tariff, the clean price, carbon price, incentives and subsidies from the government and the progress of technology. This model calculates the investment value of CCS project by studying the binomial tree model of real o...

New technologies are critical to enhancing agricultural productivity and reducing poverty in many developing countries. While public-sector investment in research has historically driven technological change in agriculture, recent trends suggest that the public sector’s role may not be as significant in the future. There is much optimism about the private sector’s capacity to deliver new techno...

This paper applies current theory concerning the impact of irreversibility of investment, in order to test for the impact of uncertainty on investment expenditure for a middle income country. The contribution of the paper is unique in two respects. First, it employs dynamic heterogeneous panel estimation techniques not previously applied to investment functions. Second, it explicitly tests for ...

Corporate Skills as an Ex-Ante Incentive to R&D Investment Using a balanced panel of 215 Italian manufacturing firms over the 1995-2000 period, this paper investigates the determinants of R&D investment at the level of the firm. While finding further support for the well-established technology-push and demand-pull hypotheses, this study also tests the role of skill endowment in increasing a fir...

The financial market is highly fluctuating in nature. If investment strategies are not adequately planned and designed, it may lead to high monetary losses. There’s a high risk involved in stock market investment as the investment strategies are purely based on expert knowledge about the market conditions and some amounts of instincts. In our proposed method using the insight of technical analy...

This paper examines two interrelated aspects of Asian economic dynamism and the management of external shocks, in the context of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from developing East Asia. Outward FDI from these economies has been growing rapidly, driven by deeper economic integration, more open FDI regimes, growing technological and financial sophistication, and rising savings levels. T...

In the world and in our country, Iran, many researches have been done in the field of financing, but due to the importance of this issue, it needs more thought and contemplation. Therefore, this study assessed “the impact of investments on financing of companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange”. The statistical sample is consisted of companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange during a fi...

Previous studies find that some social groups are stuck in poverty traps because of network effects. However, these studies do not carefully analyze how these groups overcome low human capital investment activities. Unlike previous studies, the model in this paper includes network externalities in both the human capital investment stage and the subsequent career stages. This implies that not on...

Transition of the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) to functioning market economies creates new investment opportunities. A decade ago capital markets were almost absent in all CEE countries but they are developing rapidly. At the end of the 1990s institutional investors from Western countries are present in the equity and bond markets of the largest CEE economies. ...