An Exact Soultion for the Investment and Market Value of a Firm Facing Uncertainty, Adjustment Costs, and Irreversibility / Andrew B. Abel, Janice C. Eberly.

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Abel, Andrew B. [Browse]
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Language
English
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Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1993.
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  • Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w4412. [More in this series]
  • NBER working paper series no. w4412
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This paper derives closed-form solutions for the investment and market value, under uncertainty, of competitive firms with constant returns to scale production and convex costs of adjustment. Solutions are derived for the case of irreversible investment as well as for reversible investment. Optimal investment is a non-decreasing function of q, the shadow value of capital. The conditions of optimality imply that q cannot contain a bubble; thus, optimal investment depends only on fundamentals. However, the value of the firm may contain a bubble that does not affect investment behavior. Relative to the case of reversible investment, the introduction of irreversibility does not affect q, but it reduces the fundamental market value of the firm.
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July 1993.
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