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The Value of Financial Flexibility
Published: 09/10/2008 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2008.01397.x
ANDREA GAMBA, ALEXANDER TRIANTIS
We develop a model that endogenizes dynamic financing, investment, and cash retention/payout policies in order to analyze the effect of financial flexibility on firm value. We show that the value of financing flexibility depends on the costs of external financing, the level of corporate and personal tax rates that determine the effective cost of holding cash, the firm's growth potential and maturity, and the reversibility of capital. Through simulations, we demonstrate that firms facing financing frictions should simultaneously borrow and lend, and we examine the nature of dynamic debt and liquidity policies and the value associated with corporate liquidity.
Valuing Flexibility as a Complex Option
Published: 06/01/1990 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1990.tb03702.x
ALEXANDER J. TRIANTIS, JAMES E. HODDER
This paper develops an approach for valuing flexible production systems using contingent claims pricing. Demand curves for our model's underlying assets (output products) may be downward sloping, in contrast with the standard option pricing assumption. Also, our marginal production(exercise) costs may be increasing. In addition, we allow for multiple products and a production capacity constraint. These elements of the model result in complex exercise decisions for the contingent claims which comprise the production system's value. We illustrate our approach by valuing a flexible system that produces two products which have profit margin functions with stochastic parameters.
Interactions of Corporate Financing and Investment Decisions: A Dynamic Framework
Published: 09/01/1994 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1994.tb02453.x
DAVID C. MAUER, ALEXANDER J. TRIANTIS
This article analyzes the interaction between a firm's dynamic investment, operating, and financing decisions in a model with operating adjustment and recapitalization costs. Using numerical analysis, we solve the model for cases that highlight interaction effects. We find that higher production flexibility (due to lower costs of shutting down and reopening a production facility) enhances the firm's debt capacity, thereby increasing the net tax shield value of debt financing. While higher financial flexibility (resulting from lower recapitalization costs) has a similar effect, production flexibility and financial flexibility are, to some extent, substitutes. We find that the impact of debt financing on the firm's investment and operating decisions is economically insignificant.