| Article ID: | iaor19971263 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 19 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 255 |
| End Page Number: | 266 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1994 |
| Journal: | Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics |
| Authors: | Novak F.S., Schnitkey G.D. |
| Keywords: | financial, programming: dynamic, agriculture & food |
This article evaluates the effects of including the costs of bankruptcy in a dynamic model of off-farm investment decisions using a stochastic dynamic programming model which incorporates the stochastic dynamic nature of investment returns and the interrelationships between financial structure and investment decisions. The present results suggest that in the presence of bankruptcy, optimal investment decisions are affected by financial structure and financial market conditions. Ignoring bankruptcy costs in determining investment decisions results in a high probability of bankruptcy.