Uncertainty and the Cost of Reversal

Giovanni Immordino ()

The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory, 2005, vol. 30, issue 2, pages 119-128

Abstract: For standard irreversibility theory the prospect of acquiring better information in the future should induce more flexible decisions: the “irreversibility effect”. This result relies on the definition of an irreversible position as one that would be technically or economically impossible to reverse. In practice, many positions can be reversed at an affordable cost. In this case an increase in informativeness alone is not enough to bias decisions in favour of more flexibility. We look for restrictions on decision sets, information structures and preferences that make possible to study the effect of information on flexibility. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. 2005

Keywords: irreversibility; information structures (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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