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When investment decisions cannot be reversed and returns to capital are uncertain, the firm faces a higher user cost of capital than if it could reverse its decisions. This higher user cost tends to reduce the firm's capital stock. Opposing this effect is the irreversibility constraint itself:...
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Investment is characterized by costly reversibility when a firm can purchase capital at a given price and sell capital at a lower price. We derive an explicit analytic solution for optimal investment by a firm facing costly reversibility. In addition, we derive a local approximation to the...
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highly sensitive to uncertainty. We briefly summarize the theory, stressing its empirical implications. We then use cross …-section and time-series data for a set of developing and industrialized countries to explore the relevance of the theory for … - affects investment as the theory suggests, but the size of the effect is moderate, and is greatest for developing countries …
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We study the effects of aggregate and idiosyncratic uncertainty on the entry of firms, total investment, and prices in a competitive industry with irreversible investment. We first use standard dynamic programming methods to determine firms' entry decisions, and we describe the resulting...
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itself. It then examines whether aggregate market risk or aggregate fundamental risk is priced. Although market risk is … priced, the paper does find that fundamental risk is an important factor in explaining risk premia …
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especially sensitive to risk, whether with respect to future cash flows, interest rates, or the ultimate cost of the investment …
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In this paper we describe the investment behavior of manufacturing firms in Italy between 1995 and 2013 and we investigate the most important factors leading to the decline in investment since 2008. We estimate an error correction model for investment using information on firms' demand...
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This paper presents a real options model to value the option to invest in a new project, whose value is contingent on two multiplicative stochastic factors behaving accordingly to correlated geometric Brownian motions. A general sensitivity analysis is conducted highlighting the importance of...
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branch is the theory of irreversible investment under uncertainty, the second the theory of competitive speculation in stocks …. A model which combines these two elements is developed and applied to the aluminium market. The theory of irreversible …
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The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it contributes to the long-running debate on the role of how uncertainty affects firms' investment decisions. Our results show that uncertainty is negatively correlated with investment. Secondly, it shows the desirability of a common European economic...
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