Investment options and the business cycle

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Boyan Jovanovic
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This paper extends Lucas (1978) to a production economy with two capital goods. It is an RBC model in which each unit of investment requires a new idea, an "option". When options are scarce, new capital is harder to put in place and the value of old capital rises. Thus the stock market and Tobin's Q are negative indexes of intangibles. During a boom, Q rises gradually, as options are used up. Because investment represents an exercise of options, it has an intertemporal substitution tradeoff that is absent in the adjustment-cost model. Equilibrium may be efficient even without markets for knowledge; the stock market may suffice.

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2007, National Bureau of Economic Research
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"August 2007"

Includes bibliographical references (p. 34-37).

Also available in PDF from the NBER world wide web site (www.nber.org).

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NBER working paper series -- no. 13307., Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 13307.

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48 p. :
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