Pursuing the Wrong Options? Adjustment Costs and the Relationship between Uncertainty and Capital Accumulation
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.
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| Length: | 11 pages |
| Date of creation: | 17 May 2010 |
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| Handle: | RePEc:hhs:gunwpe:0449 |
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