A Two-Method Solution to the Investment Timing Option

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Henry Jacoby, December 1990Within the realm of derivative asset valuation, two types of methods are available for solving the investment timing […]

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Comparing the Effects of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on Global Warming

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Richard S. Eckaus, November 1990Policies dealing with global warming require a measure of the effects of the emissions of greenhouse gases […]

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Is the Gasoline Tax Regressive?

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James M. Poterba, October 1990Claims of the regressivity of gasoline taxes typically rely on annual surveys of consumer income and expenditures […]

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User Cost in Oil Production

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M.A. Adelman, October 1990The assumption of an initial fixed mineral stock is superfluous and wrong. User cost (resource rent) in mineral […]

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Rail Costs and Capital Adjustments in a Quasi-Regulated Environment

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Anne F. Friedlaender, Ernst R. Berndt, Judy Shaw-Er Wang Chiang, and Christopher A. Vellturo, June 1990This paper reports on results obtained […]

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The Agency Cost of Alternative Debt Instruments

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Antonio Mello and John Parsons, Revised June 1990In this paper we show how to adapt the traditional contingent claims valuation techniques […]

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The Economics of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations

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Timothy Besley, Stephen Coate, and Glenn Loury, May 1990This paper examines the role and performance of an institution for allocating savings […]

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Auction Design and Favoritism

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Jean-Jacques Laffont and Jean Tirole, December 1989The theory of auctions has ignored the fact that often auction designers, not the principal, […]

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The Politics of Government Decision Making: Regulatory Institutions

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Jean-Jacques Laffont and Jean Tirole, September 1989Public decision makers are given a vague mandate to regulate industries. Restrictions on their instruments […]

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Vertical Integration and Market Foreclosure

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Oliver Hart and Jean Tirole, April 1990Few people would disagree with the proposition that horizontal mergers have the potential to restrict […]

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Pricing Behavior and Vertical Contracts in Retail Markets

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Do Stock Prices Move Together Too Much?

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Robert S. Pindyck and Julio Rotemberg, April 1990We show that comovements of individual stock prices cannot be justified by economic fundamentals. […]

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Irreversibility, Uncertainty, and Investment

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Robert S. Pindyck, March 1990Most investment expenditures have two important characteristics. First, they are largely irreversible; the firm cannot disinvest, so […]

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Energy Use, Technical Progress and Productivity Growth: A Survey of Economic Issues

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Ernst R. Berndt, March 1990This is a survey paper for non-specialists on interactions between energy and productivity growth. The first half […]

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Inventories and the Short-Run Dynamics of Commodity Prices

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Robert S. Pindyck, March 1990I examine the behavior of inventories and their role in the short-run dynamics of commodity production and […]

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Irreversibility and the Explanation of Investment Behavior

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Robert S. Pindyck, January 1990The explanation of aggregate and sectoral investment behavior has been one of the less successful endeavors in […]

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One for You, Three for Me…or… The Design of Optimal Production Sharing Rules for a Petroleum Exploration Venture

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Philip Hampson, John Parsons, and Charles Blitzer, Revised July 1990This is a case study in the design of the production sharing […]

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The Organization and Management of Nuclear Power Plants

Posted on February 1st, 1990 by tagadmin

John S. Carroll and Peter B. Cebon, February 1990 Nuclear power plants are a controversial technology. The future of the […]

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