In this paper, we examine the interaction among the investment, production and hedging decisions. In so doing, we provide simple formulas that enable the firm, at any point in time, to quantify the impact of one decision on another and thus modify its strategy accordingly.

When modeling output uncertainty, the multiplicative specification is consistently chosen over the additive form, despite the latter being arguably intuitively more obvious. The rationale for this seems to be that when production risk is the only source of uncertainty, additive uncertainty does...