Investment under Uncertainty, 9780691034102
Hardcover
How should firms decide whether and when to invest in new capital equipment, additions to their workforce, or the development of new products? This book provides an exposition of a theoretical approach to the capital investment decisions of firms, stressing the irreversibility of most investment decisions.

Investment under Uncertainty

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  • Hardcover

    488 pages

  • Release Date

    10 April 1994

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Summary

How should firms decide whether and when to invest in new capital equipment, additions to their workforce, or the development of new products? Why have traditional economic models of investment failed to explain the behaviour of investment spending??;pThis text provides a detailed exposition of a new theoretical approach to the capital investment decisions of firms, stressing the irreversibility of most investment decisions, and the uncertainty of the economic environment in which these de…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780691034102
ISBN-10:0691034109
Author:Robert K. Dixit, Robert S. Pindyck
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Imprint:Princeton University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:488
Release Date:10 April 1994
Weight:851g
Dimensions:235mm x 152mm
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Critics Review

”[The authors’] approach has powerful implications for investors in marketable assets as well. No investment professional or CFO can afford to ignore this brilliant new book.”—Peter L. Bernstein, author of Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street“Avinash Dixit and Robert Pindyck have successfully applied to capital budgeting the ideas and techniques of option pricing that have so enriched our understanding of financial markets.”—Merton H. Miller, Nobel Laureate in Economics

About The Author

Robert K. Dixit

Avinash K. Dixit is John J. F. Sherrerd ‘52 University Professor of Economics at Princeton University. His most recent book is Thinking Strategically, with Barry Nalebuff (Norton). Robert S. Pindyck is Mitsubishi Bank Professor of Economics at the Sloan School of Management, MIT. His books include Econometric Models and Economic Forecasts, with Daniel L. Rubinfeld (McGraw-Hill).

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