In the paper, we solve the pricing problem for American options in Markov-modulated Levy models. The early exercise boundaries and prices are calculated using a generalization of Carr's randomization for regime-switching models. The pricing procedure is efficient even if the number of states is...

In the paper, we solve the pricing problem for perpetual American options in Markov-modulated Levy models. The early exercise boundaries and prices are calculated using an iteration procedure. The pricing procedure is efficient even if the number of states is large provided the transition rates...

This paper investigates strategic investment policies in a duopolistic continuous-time real options game. Our contribution is twofold, economic and methodological. The former is the recognition that, under fixed costs of investment and time-to-build, a firm's exercise of its capital-replacement...

An industry consisting of a large number of small (fixed size) firms subject to idiosyncratic productivity shocks is considered. At the moment of entry, a firm takes on debt. We demonstrate that in a competitive equilibrium, some firms exit and pay out their debt while others choose to default....

This paper provides a detailed analysis of the Least Squares Monte Carlo Simulation Method (Longstaff and Schwartz, 2001) and of the extension of Gamba (2003) to value portfolios of real options. The accuracy of the method is assessed when valuing stylised real options as maximum, compound or...

This paper examines strategic investment games between two firms that compete for optimal entry in a project that generates uncertain revenue flows. Under asymmetry on both the sunk cost of investment and revenue flows of the two competing firms, we investigate the value of real investment...

In a growing economy the cash flows from investment projects can be expected to be rising over time. In this paper we explore the interactions of growth and uncertainty of cash flows with variable capital intensity in the decision to invest. We derive simple replacements for the usual...

This paper provides a general framework for pricing of real options in continuous time for wide classes of payoff streams that are functions of Levy processes. As applications, we calculate the option values of multi-stage investment/disinvestment problems (sequences of embedded options, which...

Real options analysis typically assumes that projects are continuously evaluated and launched at precisely the time determined to be optimal. However, real world projects cannot be managed in this way because of the costs of formally evaluating an investment opportunity. This paper analyzes how...

We calculate optimal exercise boundaries and rational prices for perpetual American call and put options, and solve entry and exit problems when the underlying uncertainty is modelled as an exponential Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. The solution is almost as simple as in the case of an exponential...