Affiliation:
1. Department of Economics, University of Michigan, 238 Lorch Hall, 611 Tappan Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220, and NBER (e-mail: )
Abstract
This paper estimates the response of investment to changes in uncertainty using data on oil drilling in Texas and the expected volatility of the future price of oil. Using a dynamic model of firms' investment problem, I find that: (i) the response of drilling activity to changes in price volatility has a magnitude consistent with the optimal response prescribed by theory, (ii) the cost of failing to respond to volatility shocks is economically significant, and (iii) implied volatility data derived from futures options prices yields a better fit to firms' investment behavior than backward-looking volatility measures such as GARCH. (JEL C58, D92, G13, G31, L71, Q31)
Publisher
American Economic Association
Subject
Economics and Econometrics
Cited by
233 articles.
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