Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/30644 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2759
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
The paper studies the interaction between cyclical uncertainty and investment in a stochastic real option framework where demand shifts stochastically between three different states, each with different rates of drift and volatility. In our setting the shifts are governed by a three-state Markov switching model with constant transition probabilities. The magnitude of the link between cyclical uncertainty and investment is quantified using simulations of the model. The chief implication of the model is that recessions and financial turmoil are important catalysts for waiting. In other words, our model shows that macroeconomic risk acts as an important deterrent to investments.
Subjects: 
business cycles
real options
investment
Markov switching
Tobin's q
uncertainty
JEL: 
D81
D92
E32
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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