Evaluating environmental investments: a real options approach
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A study examined the optimal environmental investment decision of a firm faced with an environmental regulation schedule that associates maximum production levels and operating costs to the level of its environmental investment. A stochastic output price was used to generate a nontrivial investment schedule for a firm aiming to maximize its economic value in the context of this regulation. A model that ascertains the time when it is optimum to make investments in environmental technologies and considers the basic parameters affecting this decision was developed. The analysis revealed that firms need a significantly high level of output price before making investments in environmental technologies since they optimally would refuse to make substantial irreversible investment that could ultimately be unprofitable if prices fell.
Publication Name: Management Science
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0025-1909
Year: 1998
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Analytic solutions for the value of the option to (dis)invest
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It is shown that power series expansions can frequently be employed to gain analytic expressions for the value of a company's investment opportunities. This research indicates how these procedures are applied if a company's investment opportunities have net cash flows which are produced by the Cox, Ingersoll and Ross 'square root process.'
Publication Name: R & D Management
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0033-6807
Year: 2001
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Optimal exploration investments under price and geological-technical uncertainty: a real options model
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A real options model for valuing natural resource exploration investments in the case of joint price and geological-technical uncertainty is presented. This model can be used for oil and other commodity exploration prospects.
Publication Name: R & D Management
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0033-6807
Year: 2001
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