Dynamic Dividend and Investment Decisions in Value Added Firms: An Application to Farmer Owned Ethanol Plants

Jianhua Zhu and Robert W. Jolly

No 132765, 2005 Agricultural and Rural Finance Markets in Transition, October 3-4, 2005, Minneapolis, Minnesota from Regional Research Committee NC-1014: Agricultural and Rural Finance Markets in Transition

Abstract: The paper analyzes the dynamic interaction between dividend and investment by adopting numerical methods in a growth framework. Two benchmark models are introduced and their modified version for ethanol production is particularly studied. The transition path supports the trend of smoothing procedure and approximately follows plant’s life cycle. After ethanol plants achieve the mature size, impulse response functions and moment properties for dividend and investment associated with margin shocks and interest rate shocks are computed numerically. The result suggests that investment amount is adjusted in wide range and dividend decision is highly associated with cash flows available in ethanol plants.

Keywords: Agricultural; Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.132765

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