Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Working Papers in Economics,
University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics
No 449: Pursuing the Wrong Options? Adjustment Costs and the Relationship between Uncertainty and Capital Accumulation
Stephen R. Bond (), Måns Söderbom () and Guiying Wu ()
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Stephen R. Bond: Nuffield College, Department of Economics and Centre for Business Taxation, University of Oxford, UK and Institute for Fiscal Studies
Måns Söderbom: Department of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University, Postal: Box 640, SE 40530 GÖTEBORG
Guiying Wu: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Abstract: bel and Eberly (1999) show that the effect of uncertainty on long run capital accumulation is ambiguous in a real options model with irreversible investment. We show that a higher level of uncertainty tends to reduce expected capital stock levels in a model with strictly convex adjustment costs. Simulations suggest that this negative impact of uncertainty on capital accumulation may be substantial. We also provide some intuition for this result.
Keywords: Uncertainty; real options; adjustment costs; capital accumulation.
11 pages, May 17, 2010
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