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Book Investment under Uncertainty

Download or read book Investment under Uncertainty written by Robert K. Dixit and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-14 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should firms decide whether and when to invest in new capital equipment, additions to their workforce, or the development of new products? Why have traditional economic models of investment failed to explain the behavior of investment spending in the United States and other countries? In this book, Avinash Dixit and Robert Pindyck provide the first detailed exposition of a new theoretical approach to the capital investment decisions of firms, stressing the irreversibility of most investment decisions, and the ongoing uncertainty of the economic environment in which these decisions are made. In so doing, they answer important questions about investment decisions and the behavior of investment spending. This new approach to investment recognizes the option value of waiting for better (but never complete) information. It exploits an analogy with the theory of options in financial markets, which permits a much richer dynamic framework than was possible with the traditional theory of investment. The authors present the new theory in a clear and systematic way, and consolidate, synthesize, and extend the various strands of research that have come out of the theory. Their book shows the importance of the theory for understanding investment behavior of firms; develops the implications of this theory for industry dynamics and for government policy concerning investment; and shows how the theory can be applied to specific industries and to a wide variety of business problems.

Book Informational Asymmetry between Managers and Investors in the Optimal Capital Structure Decision

Download or read book Informational Asymmetry between Managers and Investors in the Optimal Capital Structure Decision written by Matthias Bank and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this article, we consider the impact of asymmetric information between managers and investors on the optimal capital structure decision. This is done within a continuous-time framework, where the relevant state variable is given by the EBIT value of the firm; an approach taken by Goldstein et al. (2001), Hackbarth et al. (2003), Dangl amp; Zechner (2004) amongst others. Our setup differs in that we assume the EBIT to follow an Arithmetic Brownian motion, i.e. it can assume negative values. More importantly, we extend this framework in two directions: (i) We introduce a separate management claim. (ii) We introduce asymmetric information between managers and investors by assuming that claimants receive noisy signals, which they process according to rational expectation principles. Our results show, that managers always try to avoid debt, and that their optimal bankruptcy threshold is always lower, than the threshold set by equity holders. The introduction of asymmetric information changes the optimality conditions, and consequently the capital structure decision. It is shown, that the informational asymmetry can substantially lower the optimal leverage ratio, even without assuming that managers are entrenched.

Book Optimal Investment Decisions

Download or read book Optimal Investment Decisions written by Pierre Massé and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Decision Theoretic Approach to Optimal Investment Decisions and an Optimal Financial Structure Under Risk

Download or read book A Decision Theoretic Approach to Optimal Investment Decisions and an Optimal Financial Structure Under Risk written by Franz Josef Sosnowski and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Investment Decisions of Firms

Download or read book The Investment Decisions of Firms written by S. J. Nickell and published by Welwyn : Nisbet ; Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

Download or read book The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics written by and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 7493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition is now available as a dynamic online resource. Consisting of over 1,900 articles written by leading figures in the field including Nobel prize winners, this is the definitive scholarly reference work for a new generation of economists. Regularly updated! This product is a subscription based product.

Book Optimal Long Term Investment in a Jump Diffusion Setting

Download or read book Optimal Long Term Investment in a Jump Diffusion Setting written by Ba M. Chu and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, we generalize the model of Pham (Pham [2003]) to jump diffusion models. Based on (Pham [2003]), we first consider an investment model where we construct a portfolio of a riskless asset and a risky one which is assumed to follow a jump diffusion process so as to overperform a given benchmark. We perturb up to the second order the dynamics of the economic indicator process with respect to the jump step of the risky asset so as to obtain a large deviation probability control problem with its duality which is an risk sensitive control problem on the optimal logarithmic moment generating function that can be explicitly derived. We then prove without relying on the ergodicity of the economic indicator process that the logarithmic moment generating function (or exponential utility function) is definitely optimal. Last we use the large deviation theorem to state the equivalence between optimal probabilistic risk and optimal growth rate of the portfolio management.

Book The Investment Decision  A Re Examination of Competing Theories Using Panel Data

Download or read book The Investment Decision A Re Examination of Competing Theories Using Panel Data written by Cherian Samuel and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: September 1996 For firms, the single most important determinant of capital spending appears to be cash flow. Firm managers care more about cash flow and cost of capital than about stock market signals and level of output. In the United States, gross business investments in plant and equipment (fixed investments) constitute only about 10 percent of GNP, but such investments may represent GNP's most important component because (1) plant and equipment have a long-term effect on the economy's productive capacity, (2) changes in investment spending directly affect levels of employment and workers' incomes in durable goods industries, and (3) supply and demand are sensitive to changes in investment, which is the most volatile component of GNP. Economists have long been concerned about what - in the economy, the industry, and the firm - determines investments in capital spending. Using a panel of data for U.S. manufacturing firms for 1972-90, Samuel compares five theories of investment: accelerator theory, cash flow theory (liquidity model, managerial model, and information-theoretic model), neoclassical theory, modified neoclassical (Bischoff) theory, and Q theory. If the results from cross-section regressions can be viewed as representing the long-term equilibrium, the single most important determinant of capital spending appears to be cash flow. Apparently, managers care more about cash flow and cost of capital than about stock market signals and the level of output. And at the firm level, managerial perceptions about fundamentals are more important than market perceptions. For managers, the stock market may be a side show to capital spending decisions. To generalize in a way that might be useful for developing countries: Financial decisions at the firm level are closely linked to real decisions in the economy. Internal finance is the most important source of funds, and capital spending is the most important use of funds, so there is a close relationship betwen real and financial decisions. This paper - a product of the Operations Policy Group, Operations Policy Department - is part of a larger effort in the department to disseminate results of policy analysis. The author may be contacted at [email protected].

Book The Investment Decision

Download or read book The Investment Decision written by Cherian Samuel and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For firms, the single most important determinant of capital spending appears to be cash flow. Firm managers care more about cash flow and cost of capital than about stock market signals and level of output. In the United States, gross business investments in plant and equipment (fixed investments) constitute only about 10 percent of GNP, but such investments may represent GNP's most important component because (1) plant and equipment have a long-term effect on the economy's productive capacity, (2) changes in investment spending directly affect levels of employment and workers' incomes in durable goods industries, and (3) supply and demand are sensitive to changes in investment, which is the most volatile component of GNP.Economists have long been concerned about what - in the economy, the industry, and the firm - determines investments in capital spending. Using a panel of data for U.S. manufacturing firms for 1972shy;90, Samuel compares five theories of investment: accelerator theory, cash flow theory (liquidity model, managerial model, and information-theoretic model), neoclassical theory, modified neoclassical (Bischoff) theory, and Q theory.If the results from cross-section regressions can be viewed as representing the long-term equilibrium, the single most important determinant of capital spending appears to be cash flow. Apparently, managers care more about cash flow and cost of capital than about stock market signals and the level of output. And at the firm level, managerial perceptions about fundamentals are more important than market perceptions. For managers, the stock market may be a side show to capital spending decisions.To generalize in a way that might be useful for developing countries: Financial decisions at the firm level are closely linked to real decisions in the economy. Internal finance is the most important source of funds, and capital spending is the most important use of funds, so there is a close relationship betwen real and financial decisions.This paper - a product of the Operations Policy Group, Operations Policy Department - is part of a larger effort in the department to disseminate results of policy analysis. The author may be contacted at [email protected].

Book Optimal Investment Rule in an Inefficient Financial Market

Download or read book Optimal Investment Rule in an Inefficient Financial Market written by Yaping Wang and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article studies the corporate investment decision problem faced by a manager whose compensation is pegged to the stock price at some future time (rewarding time)in a market that the stock price may deviate from its fundamental value. It provides an analytical solution on the optimal investment rule and finds that in certain cases the manager may not invest in a project even though its net present value is positive, or, the manager may invest in a project with a negative net present value. Hence both over-investment and under-investment problems can be explained in this unified model. This model also explains the empirical finding of Blanchard, Rhee and Summers (1993) that, given fundamentals, market valuations appear to play a limited role in affecting corporate investment decisions. In addition, the article finds that incentive mechanisms for managers which are related to the long-term stock prices can also lead to investment distortions. The results of this paper can reasonably explain the pattern of corporate investments, especially of venture capital investments.

Book Dissertation Abstracts International

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Applications of Stochastic Optimal Control to Economics and Finance

Download or read book Applications of Stochastic Optimal Control to Economics and Finance written by Salvatore Federico and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world dominated by uncertainty, modeling and understanding the optimal behavior of agents is of the utmost importance. Many problems in economics, finance, and actuarial science naturally require decision makers to undertake choices in stochastic environments. Examples include optimal individual consumption and retirement choices, optimal management of portfolios and risk, hedging, optimal timing issues in pricing American options, and investment decisions. Stochastic control theory provides the methods and results to tackle all such problems. This book is a collection of the papers published in the Special Issue "Applications of Stochastic Optimal Control to Economics and Finance", which appeared in the open access journal Risks in 2019. It contains seven peer-reviewed papers dealing with stochastic control models motivated by important questions in economics and finance. Each model is rigorously mathematically funded and treated, and the numerical methods are employed to derive the optimal solution. The topics of the book's chapters range from optimal public debt management to optimal reinsurance, real options in energy markets, and optimal portfolio choice in partial and complete information settings. From a mathematical point of view, techniques and arguments of dynamic programming theory, filtering theory, optimal stopping, one-dimensional diffusions and multi-dimensional jump processes are used.

Book Financial Management from an Emerging Market Perspective

Download or read book Financial Management from an Emerging Market Perspective written by Soner Gokten and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the main reasons to name this book as Financial Management from an Emerging Market Perspective is to show the main differences of financial theory and practice in emerging markets other than the developed ones. Our many years of learning, teaching, and consulting experience have taught us that the theory of finance differs in developed and emerging markets. It is a well-known fact that emerging markets do not always share the same financial management problems with the developed ones. This book intends to show these differences, which could be traced to several characteristics unique to emerging markets, and these unique characteristics could generate a different view of finance theory in a different manner. As a consequence, different financial decisions, arrangements, institutions, and practices may evolve in emerging markets over time. The purpose of this book is to provide practitioners and academicians with a working knowledge of the different financial management applications and their use in an emerging market setting. Six main topics regarding the financial management applications in emerging markets are covered, and the context of these topics are "Capital Structure," "Market Efficiency and Market Models," "Merger and Acquisitions and Corporate Governance," "Working Capital Management," "Financial Economics and Digital Currency," and "Real Estate and Health Finance."