Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Letterie Wilko Author-Name: Laar Mindel van de Author-workplace-name: METEOR Title: The delaying effect of financing constraints on investment Abstract: We develop a simple model in which a firm considers a number of investment projects. Because of limited financial resources, the firm can undertake at most one project. In line with the literature on real options we stress features like irreversibility, uncertainty and the possibility to postpone the investment decision and argue that financing constraints tend to increase the value of waiting. Keywords: Economics ; Series: Research Memoranda Creation-Date: 2003 Number: 004 File-URL: http://digitalarchive.maastrichtuniversity.nl/fedora/objects/guid:c768c1fb-3745-4068-9a57-0052cc4dd2fd/datastreams/ASSET1/content File-Format: application/pdf File-Size: 47343 Handle: RePEc:unm:umamet:2003004