Linden, M. and Leppänen, J. (Department of Business and Economics, University of Joensuu, Yliopistokatu 7, P.O. Box 111, FI-80101 Joensuu, Finland, and Finnish Forest Research Institute, Unioninkatu 40 A, FI-00170 Helsinki, Finland). Effects of public financed aid on private forest investments: some evidence from Finland, 1963 /2000. Received Oct. 17, 2003. Accepted Sep. 2, 2003. Scand. J. For....

ecause a large number of tourists come to  Mashhad, this city has a high potential for the development of tourism-related activities. Therefore, it is necessary to equip resources for tourism activities and investment in this regard. Despite the highest tourism potential in Mashhad, there are great opportunities for the tourism industry, which has not been fully identified and has not been made...

Supplier competition and investment of effort are important concerns in supply base design. They are affected not only by the number of suppliers, but also by their capacity profile. This paper studies supply base design in terms of the number and capacities of suppliers, considering both supplier competition and investment of cost-reduction effort. We analyze a buyer who invests in capacities ...

It appears to be widely accepted in the real options literature that an increase in uncertainty should have an inhibiting e!ect on investment. Our article demonstrates that the notion of a negative uncertainty}investment relationship is not always correct. We show that in certain situations, an increase in uncertainty can actually increase the probability of investing, and thereby have a positi...