1984
DOI: 10.2307/2297702
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Flexibility and Uncertainty

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“…By implicitly relying on the existing definitions of the irreversibility effect, which, in turn imply that the effect holds either when There are two definitions of flexibility in the literature: one due to Freixas & Laffont (1984), and another due to Jones & Ostroy (1984). By Freixas and Laffont's definition of flexibility, which is equivalent to their definition for the irreversibility effect (see equation 3), the choice of capital that gives the greatest flexibility in the second period is the one that produces the largest choice set in the second period.…”
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“…By implicitly relying on the existing definitions of the irreversibility effect, which, in turn imply that the effect holds either when There are two definitions of flexibility in the literature: one due to Freixas & Laffont (1984), and another due to Jones & Ostroy (1984). By Freixas and Laffont's definition of flexibility, which is equivalent to their definition for the irreversibility effect (see equation 3), the choice of capital that gives the greatest flexibility in the second period is the one that produces the largest choice set in the second period.…”
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“…Comme le font remarquer Jones et Ostroy, l'incapacité de prendre avantage de l'information à venir n'est pas une caractéristique spécifique de l'investissement irréversible. En effet, une décision parfaitement réversible est aussi dans l'impossibilité de tirer profit de l'information à venir puisque cette dernière ne peut la concerner : une décision parfaitement réversible est aussi parfaitement myope [37]. La nature de l'incertitude peut également affecter la réversibilité d'un investissement.…”
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“…Jones et Ostroy ont examiné surtout l'aspect coût de l'irréversibilité sans passer par une théorie de la dualité. Le lien entre l'aspect contrainte de l'irréversibilité et l'aspect coût ne se fait chez Jones et Ostroy que par l'intermédiaire de coûts imbriqués (nested) les uns dans les autres [37]. Par contre, Lippman et McCaIl ont examiné surtout l'aspect imperfection du marché de l'irréversibilité [42].…”
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“…The value of information does not depend in a systematic way on the riskiness of the decision problem (Gould 1974), the risk aversion of the decision maker (Freixas andKihlstrom 1984, Willinger 1989), or the wealth level of the decision maker (Hilton 1981). The dependence on the set of available actions is mixed: the value of information increases with the flexibility (in the sense of reversibility) but not necessarily with the range of available actions (Jones and Ostroy 1984). 3 An individual's demand for information is derived from its use in a decision setting.…”
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