Summary This article investigates the derivation of post-tax investment rules and neutral tax systems under risk neutrality and risk aversion for irreversible investment projects. Integrating taxes into real option theory, it can be shown that the possible approaches dynamic programming and...

German hog production responds only very limited to price fluctuations in the pork market. The hog production concentrates in a few regions though it does not depend on special natural conditions. Furthermore, the production volume does hardly vary over time. Relatively high market risks, sunk...

This paper discusses the real options approach to investment. Real options facilitate an analysis of investment under uncertainty explicitly taking into account irreversibility of the investment decision and flexibility with respect to the investment timing. This is achieved by exploiting the...

Die Arbeit hat das Ziel, die ursprünglich rein kapitalmarkttheoretisch ausgelegte Optionspreistheorie für das Management anwendungsorientierter Grundlagenforschung und produktorientierter Anwendungsforschung nutzbar zu machen. An der Schnittstelle von Modelltheorie und Empirie untersucht sie,...