To buy or not to buy? Uncertainty, irreversibility, and heterogeneous investment dynamics in Italian company data

IMF Staff Papers

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 375-400

  Bond, Stephen R ^a,b,c   Lombardi, Domenico ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

^b NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d WORLD BANK   (United States)

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EID: 34247237188     PISSN: 10207635     EISSN: 15645150     Source Type: Book Series    
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