This study provides evidence that managerial incentives, shaped by compensation contracts, help to explain the empirical relationship between uncertainty and investment. We develop a model in which the manager, induced by an incentive contract, makes investment decisions for a firm that faces time-varying volatility. In the model, a manager’s privately optimal investment response to a volatilit...

Credit constraints and a need to invest in host country-specific human capital may lead immigrant couples to adopt a family investment strategy. Researchers attempting to evaluate this family investment hypothesis, however, face severe data limitations, because standard data sources often identify the foreign born, but typically provide no information about the migrating unit or the immigration...

In this paper we examine an optimal investment policy of the firm that is financed by issuing equity and debt. Recently, a number of researchers have studied the interaction among firm’s investment and financing decisions under uncertainty by means of real option framework. In the literature, investment problems for a firm with growth options, that is financed with equity and debt are investiga...

Consider an insurer who is allowed to make risk-free and risky investments. The price process of the investment portfolio is described as a geometric Lévy process. We study the tail probability of the stochastic present value of future aggregate claims. When the claim-size distribution is of Pareto type, we obtain a simple asymptotic formula which holds uniformly for all time horizons. The same...

In capital accumulation under uncertainty, a decision-maker must determine how much capital to invest in riskless and risky investment opportunities over time. The investment strategy yields a stream of capital, with investment decisions made so that the dynamic distribution of wealth has desirable properties. The distribution of accumulated capital to a fixed point in time and the distribution...

due to the increasing cost and environmental impacts of fossil fuel consumption, using the renewable energies in data center has become an important and essential priority. although using renewable energies has less environmental harmful effects, but the high investment needed for their installations as well as their fluctuating power production characteristic, restricts their usage such that m...

The standard intertemporal model of open economy with a dynamic budget constraint predicts that investment and saving should be cointegrated as long as the economy does not violate its budget constraint. Recent empirical studies of the long run investment-saving comovement for the 1947:1–1987:3 period US data, however, report conflicting findings: some studies find that the time series of inves...

T he importance of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries has begun to spread very rapidly, especially after the transition of command economies countries into open markets. Many countries see attracting FDI as an important element in their strategy for economic growth because FDI is widely regarded as an amalgamation of capital, technology, marketing, and management...

The efficient market hypothesis (EMH) fails as a valid model of financial markets. The fractal market hypothesis (FMH) is a more general alternative way to the EMH. The FMH is formed on the following parameter space: agents’ investment horizons. A financial market is more stable when a fractal character in the structures of agent’s investment horizons is adopted. For computer simulations, the c...