This textbook provides an introduction to environmental finance and investments. The current situation raises fundamental questions that this book aims to address. Under which conditions could carbon pricing schemes contribute to a significant decrease in emissions? What are the new investment...

1 Introduction -- 2 The Issue of Climate Change.- 3 The Rise of the Emission Markets -- 4 The Economics of Mitigation Strategies -- 5 The Finance of Environment Investments -- 6 The Emission Price Dynamics -- Bibliography

Empirical Analysis of Statistical Commodity Price Properties -- Stochastic Volatility, Jump Diffusion, and Lévy Processes -- Real Options Valuation Using Monte Carlo Simulation and the Longstaff-Schwartz Method.

Jil C. Onimus makes a contribution to the nascent research line on the economic value of venture capital contracts which lies at the intersection of venture capital contract design and real option pricing. She identifies the baskets of real options embedded in model venture capital contracts as...

Valuing portfolios of options embedded in investment decisions is arguably one of the most important and challenging problems in real options and corporate ?nance in general. Although the problem is common and vitally important in the value creation process of almost any corporation, it has not...

Real Options in Theory and Practice -- Stochastic Models for the Term Structure of Interest Rates -- Real Options Valuation Tools in Corporate Finance -- Analysis of Various Real Options in Simulations and Backtesting -- Summary and Outlook

This book analyzes real options valuation for non-constant versus constant interest rates using simulation and historical backtesting. Several real options are investigated and combined with various pricing tools and stochastic term structure models. Interest rates for real options valuation are...

This book presents empirical evidence that supports and facilitates a practical, integrated approach to how bank regulatory and selected macro-prudential tools interact with monetary policy to achieve price and financial stability. The empirical results contained in various chapters accompany...

Anhand eines fiktiven Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprojekts (FuE) untersucht Saskia Bardens die finanzielle Vorteilhaftigkeit von einer input- und output-orientierten steuerlichen Förderung und simuliert deren Verlauf mithilfe der Monte-Carlo-Methode. Die Analyse der Simulationsergebnisse...

Einführung -- Bewertung als Entscheidungsproblem und Lösungsansätze: Ein Überblick -- Entscheidungstheoretische Grundlagen -- Kriterien der subjektiven Bewertung von Risiken und Risikoteilung -- Grundmodell der Portefeuilleplanung (ohne exogenem Überschuss) -- Preisbildung auf dem...