{"title":"Dynamic investment strategy and optimal capital structure under risk and ambiguity","authors":"Dandan Song, Wenwei Wang, Pengfei Luo","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2025.108643","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces model uncertainty and risk management into a levered firm’s decision-making model based on a real option framework, and demonstrates the implications of ambiguity aversion to the optimal project initiation investment, productivity improved investment, hedging and financing decisions. The numerical results provide several important implications. Model uncertainty leads to underinvestment and reduces the firm value, the optimal coupon and also the leverage ratio. Besides, the firm value is enhanced and investment is accelerated accordingly with hedging. Especially, the more ambiguity-averse the manager is, the more significant the impact of hedging is.","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"139 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Finance Research Letters","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2025.108643","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"BUSINESS, FINANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper introduces model uncertainty and risk management into a levered firm’s decision-making model based on a real option framework, and demonstrates the implications of ambiguity aversion to the optimal project initiation investment, productivity improved investment, hedging and financing decisions. The numerical results provide several important implications. Model uncertainty leads to underinvestment and reduces the firm value, the optimal coupon and also the leverage ratio. Besides, the firm value is enhanced and investment is accelerated accordingly with hedging. Especially, the more ambiguity-averse the manager is, the more significant the impact of hedging is.
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