Front Cover -- Investment Traps Exposed: Navigating Investor Mistakes and Behavioral Biases -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Navigating the Investment Minefield -- Where to Begin -- Being a Do-It-Yourselfer -- Working with an Advisor -- Who Needs a Financial Advisor? --...

We survey a large sample of Canadian firms to first learn whether they use real options, the types of real options used, and why firms do not use them. Only 36 of the 214 respondents (16.8%) report using real options, which ranks last among nine capital budgeting techniques. The main reason for...