(1) Department of Economics, Rochester Institute of Technology, 92 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623-5604, USA;(2) Korea Energy Economics Institute, 665-1 Naeson2-dong, Euiwang-si, Kyonggi-do, 473–713, Republic of Korea
Abstract:
Recently, Batabyal and Yoo (2003) have studied aspects of indivisible and divisible land development in a dynamic and stochastic framework. In this note, we complement the analysis in this paper by examining an aspect of the indivisible land development decision when a landowner has an exogenously given reservation level of revenue. In particular, we show that the magnitude of the first record (largest offer) that exceeds the landowners reservation revenue is independent of the time at which this record is received by the landowner.