The finance literature has mostly studied a firm’s integrated
investment decisions which influence its capacity size and debt
decisions, and, thus, has implicitly studied a firm’s integrated operational
and financial decisions from a perspective different from
ours. For example, Dotan and Ravid (1985) show that investment
and financial decisions must be made simultaneously and that a
negative relationship exists between capacity expansion and financial
leverage. Dammon and Senbet (1988) analyze how corporate
and personal taxes influence a firm’s optimal investment and
financial decisions under uncertainty. They show that, when equity
investment is allowed to adjust optimally, the existing prediction
about the relationship between investment-related and debt-related
tax shields must be modified. Mello and Parsons (1992)
examine the operational decisions of a mine under all-equity
financing policy, in which the mine is partially financed to maximize
leveraged equity value. Finally, Mauer and Triantis (1994)
analyze the case where a firm has the flexibility to shut down
and reopen its production facility in response to price fluctuations.