Investment under uncertainty and policy change

Pawlina, G and Kort, Peter M (2005) Investment under uncertainty and policy change. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 29 (7). pp. 1193-1209. ISSN 0165-1889

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Abstract

In this paper the impact of a policy change on the investment behavior of the firm is studied in an incomplete information setting. The policy change occurs when a stochastic process describing the state of the economic environment reaches a certain trigger. The firm has incomplete information about the trigger and knows only its probability distribution. Consequently, both the firm's conjecture concerning the trigger value as well as the precision of this conjecture serve as input parameters. We derive the optimal investment rule maximizing the value of the firm and show that the impact of the trigger value uncertainty on the optimal investment threshold is non-monotonic: the threshold decreases with uncertainty for its low levels, while the reverse is true if uncertainty is high. Furthermore, we provide results concerning the valuation of the firm's investment opportunity and present some policy implications.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
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NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, [29, 7, (2005)] DOI10.1016/j.jedc.2004.07.002
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Subjects:
?? INVESTMENT UNDER UNCERTAINTYREAL OPTIONS POLICY CHANGEACCOUNTING AND FINANCECONTROL AND OPTIMIZATIONECONOMICS AND ECONOMETRICSAPPLIED MATHEMATICSDISCIPLINE-BASED RESEARCH ??
ID Code:
43907
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Deposited On:
11 Jul 2011 18:06
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Yes
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Published
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