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Theory of the Firm Facing Uncertain Demand
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This article is published in The American Economic Review.The article was published on 1972-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 597 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Capital call & Demand-pull theory.read more
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Investment and Demand Uncertainty
Luigi Guiso,Giuseppe Parigi +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effects of uncertainty on investment decisions of a sample of Italian manufacturing firms, using information on the subjective probability distribution of future demand for firms' products according to the entrepreneurs.
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Duopoly information equilibrium: Cournot and bertrand
TL;DR: In this paper, it is shown that if the goods are substitutes (not) to share information is a dominant strategy for each firm in Bertrand (Cournot) competition, then the market outcome is always optimal.
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The effects of price and cost uncertainty on investment
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effects of increased uncertainty in future output prices, wage rates, and investment costs on the quantity of investment undertaken by a firm and found that current investment does not decrease with increased uncertainty.
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The Effect of Exchange Rate Uncertainty on the Prices and Volume of International Trade
TL;DR: In this article, the theoretical impact of exchange risk on both equilibrium prices and quantities is analyzed for several empirical cases of 1965-1975 U.S. and German trade and it is found that exchange rate uncertainty has had a significant impact on prices but no significant effect on the volume of trade.
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