Cost uncertainty, taxation, and irreversible investment

作者: Sumru Altuğ , Fanny S. Demers , Michel Demers

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-03750-8_4

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摘要: We examine the impact of learning about unknown costs investment on irreversible decisions, and show that presence increases endogenous cost adjustment depresses investment. demonstrate convergence state information capital stock to ergodic set. Once is complete, in contrast exogenous cost-of-adjustment model, a mean-preserving increase risk raises marginal cost, reducing steady-state stock.

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