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Irreversible investment, ambiguity and equity default swaps

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  • Xiaolin Tang
  • Zhaojun Yang

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We study the impact of ambiguity on the pricing and timing of the option to invest. There is a funding gap to undertake the investment, which is covered by entering into an equity-for-guarantee swap. Our model predicts that the more ambiguity-averse the agents, the less the option value, the later the investment and the higher the guarantee cost and the leverage. If the entrepreneur is more ambiguity-averse than the insurer, the investment threshold slightly rises as the perceived ambiguity increases, and on the contrary, if the entrepreneur is less ambiguity-averse than the insurer, the investment threshold increases sharply as the perceived ambiguity rises.

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  • Xiaolin Tang & Zhaojun Yang, 2018. "Irreversible investment, ambiguity and equity default swaps," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(18), pages 1301-1305, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:25:y:2018:i:18:p:1301-1305
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2017.1420866
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    1. Linjia Dong & Zhaojun Yang, 2022. "An Algorithm for the Pricing and Timing of the Option to make a Two-Stage Investment with Credit Guarantees," Computational Economics, Springer;Society for Computational Economics, vol. 60(3), pages 1175-1196, October.
    2. Dong, Linjia & Yang, Zhaojun, 2023. "Investment and financing analysis for a venture capital alternative," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 126(C).

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