THE PROMISE OF REAL OPTIONS
In recent years, both practitioners and academics have argued that traditional discounted cash flow models do a poor job of capturing the value of the options embedded in many corporate actions. This paper shows how option pricing models used in valuing financial assets can be used to value three kinds of real options that are often built into corporate projects: the option to delay, the option to expand, and the option to abandon. As a number of examples in this paper suggest, corporate investments that would be rejected using conventional DCF analysis can sometimes be justified by the value of the strategic options they provide. As the illustrations also show, however, the pricing of real options is considerably more difficult than the pricing of financial options and adjustments must often be made to capture the complexity of real investments. 2000 Morgan Stanley.
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2000
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Authors: | Damodaran, Aswath |
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Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. - Morgan Stanley, ISSN 1078-1196. - Vol. 13.2000, 2, p. 29-44
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