The Hazard Rate of Foreign Direct Investment: A Structural Estimation of a Real Option Model
The hazard rate of investment is derived within a real option model, and its properties are analyzed in order to directly study the relation between uncertainty and investment. Maximum likelihood estimates of the hazard are calculated using a sample of MNEs that have invested in Central and Eastern Europe over the period 1990-1998. Employing a standard, non-parametric specification of the hazard, our measure of uncertainty has a negative effect on investment, but the reduced-form model is unable to control for nonlinearities in the relationship. The structural estimation of the option-based hazard is instead able to account for the non-linearities and exhibits a significant value of waiting, though the latter is independent from our measure of uncertainty. This finding supports the existence of alternative channels through which uncertainty can affect investment.
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2004
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Authors: | Altomonte, Carlo ; Pennings, Enrico |
Institutions: | IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University |
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