Vivek Ghosal
Biographic Data
| ID | 5935463 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vivek Ghosal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vivek |
| FAMILY NAME | Ghosal |
| SIGNATURE | GHOSAL V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5461-1291 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Uncertainty and the employment dynamics of small and large businesses
Quantifying the Role Played by Sunk Capital Costs in Real‐options Models
Sunk capital costs are essential in generating hysteresis in real‐options models that examine firms' decisions under uncertainty. The standard results show that greater uncertainty, in the presence of sunk capital costs, dampens firms' economic activity across a wide range of decision variables. In empirical examination of these models, there is a considerable lack of evidence on the conditioning effects of sunk capital costs. In this paper, I fi…
The Political Economy of Antitrust
This book brings together contributions by leading academic researchers in the areas of political-economy, cartels, merger and non-merger enforcement, as well as economists working with antitrust authorities in the U.S. and E.U., to make a timely contribution for researchers and practitioners. The chapters in this volume cover the full range of topics: enforcement of cartels; merger control; monopolization and abuse of dominance; and systemic iss…
The Political Economy of Antitrust, Volume 282 (Contributions to Economic Analysis) (Contributions to Economic Analysis)
The Differential Impact of Uncertainty on Investment in Small and Large Businesses
We study the impact of profit uncertainty on investment and whether or not this response is different in industries that are dominated by small firms versus those that are dominated by relatively larger firms. Our key findings are that the sign of the investment-uncertainty relationship is negative, and that the quantitative negative impact is substantially greater in industries dominated by small firms. These results are robust to accounting for…
Demand Uncertainty and the Capital-Labor Ratio
Richard Hartman (1976) and Duncan M. Holthausen (1976) showed that firms' input choices may be affected by demand uncertainty. Specifically, uncertain demand conditions may lead to firms operating with a lower capital-ratio. This result has potentially important implications for the analysis of factor demand and factor productivity. The author constructs measures of demand uncertainty and examines the above relationship for a sample of 125 U.S. m…
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Demand Uncertainty and the Capital-Labor Ratio
Richard Hartman (1976) and Duncan M. Holthausen (1976) showed that firms' input choices may be affected by demand uncertainty. Specifically, uncertain demand conditions may lead to firms operating with a lower capital-ratio. This result has potentially important implications for the analysis of factor demand and factor productivity. The author constructs measures of demand uncertainty and examines the above relationship for a sample of 125 U.S. m…
The Differential Impact of Uncertainty on Investment in Small and Large Businesses
We study the impact of profit uncertainty on investment and whether or not this response is different in industries that are dominated by small firms versus those that are dominated by relatively larger firms. Our key findings are that the sign of the investment-uncertainty relationship is negative, and that the quantitative negative impact is substantially greater in industries dominated by small firms. These results are robust to accounting for…
The Political Economy of Antitrust
This book brings together contributions by leading academic researchers in the areas of political-economy, cartels, merger and non-merger enforcement, as well as economists working with antitrust authorities in the U.S. and E.U., to make a timely contribution for researchers and practitioners. The chapters in this volume cover the full range of topics: enforcement of cartels; merger control; monopolization and abuse of dominance; and systemic iss…
The Political Economy of Antitrust, Volume 282 (Contributions to Economic Analysis) (Contributions to Economic Analysis)
Quantifying the Role Played by Sunk Capital Costs in Real‐options Models
Sunk capital costs are essential in generating hysteresis in real‐options models that examine firms' decisions under uncertainty. The standard results show that greater uncertainty, in the presence of sunk capital costs, dampens firms' economic activity across a wide range of decision variables. In empirical examination of these models, there is a considerable lack of evidence on the conditioning effects of sunk capital costs. In this paper, I fi…
Uncertainty and the employment dynamics of small and large businesses
Economics (5 works) · Econometrics (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Capital Investment and Risk Analysis (2 works) · Economic Growth and Productivity (2 works) · Global trade and economics (2 works) · Industrial organization (2 works) · Labour economics (2 works) · Microeconomics (2 works) · Antitrust law (1 work)