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Contrasts between classes of assets in fixed investment panel equations as a way of testing real option theory

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  • Ciaran Driver

    (Imperial College Management School)

  • Katsushi Imai

    (Imperial College Management School)

  • Paul Temple

    (Department of Economics, University of Surrey)

  • Giovanni Urga

    (City University Business School)

Abstract

This paper reports estimation of investment equations for two classes of fixed assets: plant & machinery and building for a large sample of UK manufacturing industries. It exploits the different degree of irreversibility that characterises these assets to test the power of real options theory to explain investment under uncertainty. Additionally, the paper uses a specially constructed industry-specific measure of irreversibility for plant and machinery investment to test for real options effects within that class of investment.

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  • Ciaran Driver & Katsushi Imai & Paul Temple & Giovanni Urga, 2002. "Contrasts between classes of assets in fixed investment panel equations as a way of testing real option theory," 10th International Conference on Panel Data, Berlin, July 5-6, 2002 B3-3, International Conferences on Panel Data.
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    1. Konstantinos Drakos, 2006. "A note on uncertainty and investment across the spectrum of irreversibility," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(13), pages 873-876.

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    • E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models

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