“Postmodern” corporate finance builds on the principles of modern corporate finance while restoring at least part of the emphasis on top-line growth that prevailed before the intense emphasis on returns on capital brought on by the ongoing shareholder value movement. The vast majority of...

This paper describes a real options valuation method for situations where the underlying asset may have negative values and the underlying project present value distribution is something of the shape between normal and lognormal distribution causing skewness to the rate of return distribution....

The purpose of this paper is to examine empirically the real options to shutdown, startup, and abandon existing production assets using detailed information for 1,121 individual power plants for the period 2001--2009, a total of 8,189 plant-year observations. We find strong evidence of real...

We examine whether individuals can defy their decision power if it is beneficial for them to do so. In an experiment we let principals make a decision whether to make their own investment decision, or to let their agent make that decision. While the principal can work out that the agent benefits...

This paper provides a conceptual framework to analyze investment projects with networks externalities. In the presence of such effects, consumers make their choice of consumption according to the number of people having already adopted the product or the service. The process of diffusion of such...

The paper offers some considerations on investment project valuation from an entity-firm perspective. Once recognised the role of firm's complementarities, uniqueness, path-dependent decision-making, bounded-rationality and organizational processes, a different approach to investment projects...

We examine the impact on an R&D valuation and its investment timing of abrupt events, options facing paradise (blockbusters) and purgatory (catastrophes). We show that the presence of a special case of Lévy jumps can model positive and negative effects in the investment opportunity even when...

This paper presents a practical volatility estimation method for cash flow simulation based real option valuation with changing volatility. During cash flow simulation, present value of the future cash flows and their corresponding cash flow state variable values are recorded for all time...

We derive a general formula for pricing options with barrier and/or lookback features, which covers several types of options studied in the literature and new types of options, and demonstrate that the pricing formula can be efficiently realized using the methodology developed in Kudryavtsev and...