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SUMMARY:Thomas Mariotti (TSE) - "Investment Timing and Technological Breakthroughs"
DESCRIPTION:Microeconomics Seminar : \nTime: 2:15pm – 3:30pm\nDate:  23th June 2021\nRoom: VISIO \nThomas Mariotti (TSE)  – “Investment Timing and Technological Breakthroughs” \n\nAbstract: \nWe study the optimal investment policy of a firm facing both technological and cash-flow uncertainty. At any point in time\, the firm can decide to invest in a stand-alone technology or to wait for a technological breakthrough. Breakthroughs occur when market conditions become favorable enough\, exceeding a certain threshold value that is ex-ante unknown to the firm. A microfoundation for this assumption is that a breakthrough occurs when the share of the surplus from the new technology accruing to its developer is high enough to cover her privately observed cost. We show that the relevant Markov state variables for the firm’s optimal investment policy are the current market conditions and their current historic maximum\, and that the firm optimally invests in the stand-alone technology only when market conditions deteriorate enough after reaching a maximum. Empirically\, investments in new technologies requiring the active cooperation of developers should thus take place in booms\, whereas investments in state-of-the-art technologies should take place in busts. Moreover\, the required return for investing in the stand-alone technology is always higher than if this were the only available technology and can take arbitrarily large values following certain histories. Finally\, a decrease in development costs\, or an increase in the value of the new technology\, makes the firm more prone to bear downside risk and to delay investment in the stand-alone technology.With Jean-Paul Décamps et Fabien Gensbittel. \nOrganizers:\nRoxana Fernandez Machado (CREST)\, Julien Combe (CREST)\, and Matias Nunez (CREST)\nSponsors:\nCREST\n  \n
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