Multistage Capital Budgeting with Delayed Consumption of Slack

Multistage Capital Budgeting with Delayed Consumption of Slack

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Article ID: iaor20132420
Volume: 59
Issue: 4
Start Page Number: 869
End Page Number: 881
Publication Date: Apr 2013
Journal: Management Science
Authors: , ,
Keywords: economics
Abstract:

Capital budgeting frequently involves multiple stages at which firms can continue or abandon ongoing projects. In this paper, we study a project requiring two stages of investment. Failure to fund Stage 1 of the investment precludes investment in Stage 2, whereas failure to fund Stage 2 results in early termination. In contrast to the existing literature, we assume that the firm can limit the manager's informational rents with the early termination of the project. In this setting, we find that the firm optimally commits to a capital allocation scheme whereby it forgoes positive net present value (NPV) projects at Stage 1 (capital rationing), whereas at Stage 2, depending on the manager's previous report, it sometimes implements projects with a negative continuation NPV but in other situations forgoes implementing projects with positive continuation NPVs.

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