Firm Decisions under Jump-Diffusive Dynamics

Neha Deopa () and Daniele Rinaldo ()
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Daniele Rinaldo: IHEID, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

No 04-2019, IHEID Working Papers from Economics Section, The Graduate Institute of International Studies

Abstract: We present a model of firm investment under uncertainty and partial irreversibility in which uncertainty is represented by a jump diffusion. This allows to represent both the continuous Gaussian volatility and the discontinuous uncertainty related to information arrival, sudden changes and large shocks. The model shows how both sources of uncertainty negatively impact the optimal investment and disinvestment policies, and how the presence of large negative jumps can drastically affect the firm’s ability to recover. Our results show that the standard Gaussian framework consistently underestimates the negative effect of uncertainty on firm investment decisions. We test these predictions on a panel dataset of UK firms: we first structurally estimate the uncertainty parameters using multinomial maximum likelihood and differential evolution techniques and subsequently study their impact on firm investment rates, validating our model predictions.

Keywords: firm investment; uncertainty; jump diffusions; partial irreversibility; real options (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C61 C62 D21 D22 D8 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2019-03-21, Revised 2019-03-21
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