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Author | : Robert K. Dixit |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2012-07-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1400830176 |
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.
Author | : Avinash K. Dixit |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0691034109 |
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.
Author | : Robert K. Dixit |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 483 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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 mad.
Author | : Donald Eugene Farrar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Capital investments |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Reginald Ansell Day Egerton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Hypothesis |
ISBN | : |
Author | : ANDERSON ANDERSON WEBSTER |
Publisher | : Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2014-06-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1483294994 |
Financial Dec Making under Uncertainty
Author | : Eduardo S. Schwartz |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 890 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780262693189 |
The study of investment under uncertainty was stagnant for several decades until developments in real options revitalized the field. The topics covered in this book include the reasons behind the under-investment programme.
Author | : R.L. Crum |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9401174083 |
The business environment, particularly after the continuing oil crises of the seventies, can be characterized as evolving rapidly in complex and often unpre dictable ways. Such things as high interest and inflation rates, fluctuating ex change rates, volatile commodity markets, and increasing political turmoil have led to a situation in which explicit consideration of environmental dynamics is becoming much more important for successful business planning than was true in the past. Companies are finding that it is no longer possible to conduct "busi ness as usual" under these changing circumstances. Rather, decision makers are having to be more cognizant of the many sources of uncertainty that could have serious impacts on the continued prosperity of the firm, as well as of actions that can be taken so that the company can thrive in spite of these greater uncertainties. Businesses have responded to these challenges by giving more thorough con sideration to strategic issues. Whereas in the past the steady progression of mar kets and technology was taken for granted, the uncertainties associated with increased worldwide competition, as well as with other exogenous factors, have vii viii INTRODUCTION forced companies to think more about flexibility. This involves not only how best to exploit profitable current options, but also how to position themselves at present to be able to respond appropriately to threats and opportunities as they arise in the future. Unfortunately, in this redirection of outlook, the fmance profession has not kept pace.
Author | : Michael J. Barron |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : J.H.H Thijssen |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2006-04-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1402079443 |
Two crucial aspects of economic reality are uncertainty and dynamics. In this book, new models and techniques are developed to analyse economic dynamics in an uncertain environment. In the first part, investment decisions of firms are analysed in a framework where imperfect information regarding the investment's profitability is obtained randomly over time. In the second part, a new class of cooperative games, spillover games, is developed and applied to a particular investment problem under uncertainty: mergers. In the third part, the effect of bounded rationality on market evolution is analysed for oligopolistic competition and incomplete financial markets.