[eng] Assessing Controversial Risks Using Real Options Theory . by Robert Kast, André Lapied, Sophie Pardo and Camelia Protopopescu . Public decision-making and risk assessment in such fields as environmental risk, industrial risk, disaster insurance, and health and unemployment insurance...

Real option theory, used for valuing investments or solve optimal time schedule problems, is based on the existence of a relevant underlying security. However, in most applied works, there is no obvious asset connected with the risk to value. One of the main difficulty, in applying real option...