In recent years, Germany has significantly increased its share of electricity produced from renewable sources, which is mainly due to the Renewable Energy Act (EEG). The EEG substantially impacts the dynamics of intra-day electricity prices by increasing the likelihood of negative prices. In...

Giaccotto et al. [2007. Journal of Finance 62, 411-445] provide a simple model for pricing the cancellation and the purchase options typically embedded in automobile lease contracts, assuming constant interest rates. They show that the cancellation option is worthless because of a penalty...

A binomial lattice approach is proposed for valuing options whose payoff depends on multiple state variables following correlated geometric Brownian processes. The proposed approach relies on two simple ideas: a log-transformation of the underlying processes, which is step by step consistent...

We propose a numerical approach for structural estimation of a class of discrete (Markov) decision processes emerging in real options applications. The approach is specifically designed to account for two typical features of aggregate data sets in real options: the endogeneity of firms'...

We provide a general valuation approach for capital budgeting decisions involving the modularization in the design of a system. Within the framework developed by Baldwin and Clark (Baldwin, C. Y., K. B. Clark. 2000. Design Rules: The Power of Modularity. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA), we implement a...