Bid Values and Their Role in Land Development Over Time and Under Uncertainty

16 Pages Posted: 23 Jul 2003

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Amitrajeet A. Batabyal

Rochester Institute of Technology

Seung Jick Yoo

Sookmyung Women's University - Department of Climate and Environmental Studies

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Date Written: 2003

Abstract

Recently, Batabyal (2000) has demonstrated that when the land development question is studied in an intertemporal and random setting, it is possible that a landowner will never develop (always preserve) his or her land. This result arises because the landowner in Batabyal (2000) maximizes the likelihood of accepting the best possible bid of development. What happens when a landowner employs the following decision rule: Develop land as long as the dollar value of a bid exceeds a stochastic reservation level of revenue? In this paper, we provide an interesting answer to this question. First, we establish that the likelihood of developing land with this decision rule is always positive. Even so, we point out that on average, a landowner who uses this decision rule will always end up preserving his or her land.

Keywords: Decision Rule, Dynamics, Land Development, Preservation, Reservation Revenue Level

JEL Classification: Q24, D81

Suggested Citation

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. and Yoo, Seung Jick, Bid Values and Their Role in Land Development Over Time and Under Uncertainty (2003). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=427388 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.427388

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Seung Jick Yoo

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