Multistage Capital Budgeting with Delayed Consumption of Slack

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Baiman, Stanley; Heinle, Mirko S.; Saouma, Richard
• 署名单位: Bocconi University; University of Pennsylvania; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
• 刊物名称: MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0025-1909
• DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1120.1621
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 869-881
• 关键词: accounting; Capital budgeting; resource allocation; multistaged financing; Abandonment options; milestone-contingent investments

摘要

Capital budgeting frequently involves multiple stages at which firms can continue or abandon ongoing projects. In this paper, we study a project requiring two stages of investment. Failure to fund Stage 1 of the investment precludes investment in Stage 2, whereas failure to fund Stage 2 results in early termination. In contrast to the existing literature, we assume that the firm can limit the manager's informational rents with the early termination of the project. In this setting, we find that the firm optimally commits to a capital allocation scheme whereby it forgoes positive net present value (NPV) projects at Stage 1 (capital rationing), whereas at Stage 2, depending on the manager's previous report, it sometimes implements projects with a negative continuation NPV but in other situations forgoes implementing projects with positive continuation NPVs.