The aims of this study were to investigate choking susceptibility in a perceptual judgment task and to examine the predictive validity of the Decision Specific Reinvestment Scale (DSRS). A computer-based, choice response time basketball passing task was performed under low and high pressure conditions. Complexity was manipulated by depicting 3-on-3 and 5-on-5 scenarios. Repeated-measures ANOVAs...

Abstract This paper addresses the questions: How to calculate cost of a start/stop cycle? running one hour outside normal operating range, e.g., on part load? The presents model for calculation individual hydropower units comprising both direct costs incurring at each cycle, and indirect because reduced rehabilitation intervals main components. fundamental assumption is that frequent start-ups ...

Applications of the real options approach hardly consider investment returns to be the result of competitive markets. The reason is probably that Dixit and Pindyck (1994, ch. 8) find that the investment triggers of firms in competitive markets are equal to those of firms with exclusive options. In this study, however, it is shown that this finding is restricted to markets in which assets have i...