Abstract This study aims to generalize the following result of McDonald and Siegel (1986) on optimal investment: it is for an investor invest when project cash flows exceed a certain threshold. presents other results that refine or extend this one by integrating timing flexibility changes in with time-varying transition probabilities regime switching. emphasizes thresholds are either overvalued...

Purpose This empirical paper aims to examine the impact of interest rate (IR) and political instability (POLINS) on Palestine's domestic private investment. Design/methodology/approach A set econometric techniques time series data are adopted meet study objectives. They include regression analysis, unit root tests, cointegration test, ARDL & Bound VAR test Granger causality test. Findings T...

Parental investment is referred to as any expenditure (time, energy, resources, etc.) that a parent incurs to benefit an offspring. Parental investment theories in evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology explore mechanisms underlying parent-offspring relationships and investment. These theories examine adaptive functions and fitness dynamics of parent-offspring relationship, and how en...

Innovations in the mobile payments industry provide potentially profitable investment opportunities for banks. Nonetheless, significant uncertainties are associated with decision-making for this IT investment context, regarding future market conditions, technology standards, and consumer and merchant responses, especially their willingness to adopt. As a result, traditional capital budgeting ap...

  This is undoubtedly recognized that economic performance for each country over time is related to a great extent to its political, institutional and legal environment. In fact, these institutions and policies are that determine the governance quality.   In a panel data study, we applied newly developed indices to examine the effects of good governance on FDI for fifteen middle-income countri...