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This study incorporates the overextrapolation belief into the classic real options model. Using the stochastic dynamic programming method, we obtain the semiclosed-form solutions for the optimal investment and valuation of real options and the welfare loss owing to overextrapolation. The...
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The term “equity premium puzzle” was coined in 1985 by economists Rajnish Mehra and Edward C. Prescott. The equity premium puzzle in considered one of the most significant questions in finance. A number of papers have explored the fundamental questions of why the premium exists and has not...
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We analyze how the presence of financial markets effects the optimal exercise of real options for a risk averse agent. In this process we examine the role of the minimal martingale measure and the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). Using value-matching and smooth-pasting conditions, we...
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This paper studies the optimal risk-averse timing to sell a risky asset. The investor's risk preference is described by … models and utilities, with emphasis on their dependence on asset price, risk aversion, and quantity. We find that the timing … to illustrate the investor's strategies and the premium associated with optimally timing to sell …
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We show how directors can set the strength of a firm's anti-takeover provisions in order to influence the investment-timing …
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investor chooses the least expensive proposal and the timing of the investment. Innovators have to provide costly, but …, because the investor has less need to delay expensive investments. With endogenous number of innovators investment timing … the investment costs. When private benefits are large the investor may have to counter this by delaying the timing of …
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induce efficient timing, a novel vertical restraint being for the upstream to sell a call option on the input. We also extend …
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is whether or not the concessionare should be allowed to set the timing of new investments. In this paper we investigate … the impact of concession length and investment timing flexibility on the "concession value." It is generally argued that … investment timing flexibility, should always result in higher concession values. Our result suggests that this is not always the …
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Political restraints and proceeding effects of global warming cause the need for a change in electricity generation in Europe and its member states. As a consequence, German utilities face uncertainties of different types than in the past. Traditional investment valuation approaches are not able...
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This paper deals with the effects of tax rate uncertainty on risk-neutral and risk-averse investment behavior. We analyze effects of stochastic tax rates on both real and financial investment. It emerges that under risk neutrality as well as under risk aversion, increased tax rate uncertainty...
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