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Uncertainty, Investment, and Industry Evolution / Ricardo J. Caballero, Robert S. Pindyck.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caballero, Ricardo J.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w4160.
- NBER working paper series no. w4160
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1992.
- Summary:
- We study the effects of aggregate and idiosyncratic uncertainty on the entry of firms, total investment, and prices in a competitive industry with irreversible investment. We first use standard dynamic programming methods to determine firms' entry decisions, and we describe the resulting industry equilibrium and its characteristics, emphasizing the effects of different sources of uncertainty. We then show how the conditional distribution of prices can be used as an alternative means of determining and understanding the behavior of firms and the resulting industry equilibrium. Finally, we use four-digit U.S. manufacturing data to examine some implications of the model.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- September 1992.
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