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Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Abstract: This paper uses a simple model to explore the effects of "increasing demand risk" on business fixed investment. We show that within a putty-clay framework an increase in demand uncertainty can be expected to have two countervailing effects. On the one hand increasing risk tends to induce a firm to increase its capacity, but on the other hand the optimal capital intensity of that capacity decreases.

Keywords: Firm investment; Firm strategy; Production

JEL-codes: D92; L11

15 pages, First version: December 1979. Revised: April 1982.

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