Although significant private investment is absorbed in different sectors of power systems, transmission sector is still suffering from appropriate private investment. This is because of the pricing policies of transmission services, tariffs, and especially for investment risks. Investment risks are due to the uncertain behaviour of power systems that discourage investors to invest in the transm...

The present paper analyzes the optimal investment strategy in a defaultable (corporate) bond and a money market account in a continuous time model. Due to jumps in the bond price our market model is incomplete. The treatment of information on the firm’s asset value is based on an approach unifying the structural model and the reduced-form model. Specifically, the asset value will be assumed to ...

Discrete time infinite horizon growth optimal investment in stock markets with transactions costs is considered. The stock processes are modelled by homogeneous Markov processes. Assuming that the distribution of the market process is known, we show two recursive investment strategies such that, in the long run, the growth rate on trajectories (in "liminf" sense) is greater than or equal to the...

We develop a numerical scheme for determining the optimal asset allocation strategy for time-consistent, continuous time, mean variance optimization. Any type of constraint can be applied to the investment policy. The optimal policies for time-consistent and pre-commitment strategies are compared. When realistic constraints are applied, the efficient frontiers for the precommitment and time-con...

We consider an optimal consumption, leisure, investment, and voluntary retirement problem for an agent with a Cobb–Douglas utility function. Using dynamic programming, we derive closed form solutions for the value function and optimal strategies for consumption, leisure, investment, and retirement.

The standard model of optimal growth, interpreted as a model of a market economy with infinitely long-lived agents, does not allow separation of the savings decisions of agents from the investment decisions of firms. Investment is essentially passive: the "one good" assumption leads to a perfectly elastic investment supply; the absence of installation costs for investment leads to a perfectly e...

Regulatory uncertainty often results in under-investment especially where there are high sunk costs in utilities such as electricity, gas and telecommunications. To ensure security of supply in these industries timely and socially optimal investment is of the essence. A new perspective is provided on the under-investment problem in the regulation of a firm with market power. We compare a politi...

This paper presents a model for optimisation of investments in new power generation within restructured power markets. We use stochastic dynamic programming to identify an optimal investment strategy when the objective is to maximize the expected profit over a long time horizon. This formulation of the investment problem takes into account the value of postponing the investment decision to wait...

This paper reassesses the burden of the current U.S. international tax regime and reconsiders well-known welfare benchmarks used to guide international tax reform. Reinventing corporate tax policy requires that international considerations be placed front and center in the debate on how to tax corporate income. A simple framework for assessing current rules suggests a U.S. tax burden on foreign...