We study optimal portfolio, consumption-leisure and retirement choice of an infinitely-lived economic agent whose instantaneous preference is characterized by a constant elasticity of substitution(CES) function of consumption and leisure. We integrate in one model the optimal...

This paper studies the investment timing problem of an entrepreneur with a non- tradable real option with undiversifiable risk. We find that the time preference can have a significant impact on the risk attitude toward the idiosyncratic risk, which re- sults from the wealth effect on the implied...

We consider a decision maker's problem in a real option framework with several projects that can only be sequentially undertaken within a "decision horizon" - the time until projects are expired - and characterize the optimal sequence of exercises. A limited decision horizon leads to early...