Firms' investment decisions in response to demand and price uncertainty

Applied Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 2337-2351

  Fuss, Catherine ^a   Vermeulen, Philip ^b  

^a NATIONAL BANK OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL FLOW; DEMAND ANALYSIS; FIRM SIZE; INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT; MANUFACTURING; MONOPOLY; PRICE DYNAMICS;

EID: 51249089019     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840600959909     Document Type: Article

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