Investment busts, reputation, and the temptation to blend in with the crowd

We provide a real-options model of an industry in which agents time abandonment of their projects in an effort to protect their reputations. Agents delay abandonment attempting to signal quality. When a public common shock forces abandonment of a small fraction of projects irrespective of agents...

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Main Authors: Grenadier, Steven R. (Author), Malenko, Andrey (Contributor), Strebulaev, Ilya A. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier, 2018-03-06T22:59:47Z.
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