This paper presents a real options model to value the option to invest in a new project, whose value is contingent on two multiplicative stochastic factors behaving accordingly to correlated geometric Brownian motions. A general sensitivity analysis is conducted highlighting the importance of...

In the literature investigating the impact of uncertainty on short-run and long-run investment, most authors have used a log linear profit function. This functional form has been generally considered a reasonable approximation for more general ones and has the advantage of providing closed form...

This book presents an up-to-date overview of the theory as well as the empirics of the relationship between investment, financial imperfections and uncertainty. After reviewing the capital market imperfections literature and the empirical results, the authors discuss both traditional investment...