This paper gives an overview of simulation based procedures, which have proved to be efficient in valuing American options and therefore real options. Many of them integrate sequential stochastic simulations in the backward recursive programming approach to determine the early-exercise frontier....

This thesis contributes to the understanding of the economic decision making of farmers. In five chapters, different experimental investigations of preferences and cognitive biases are presented. Various experimental measures of risk and time preference are applied to analyze farmers’...

Investitionsentscheidungen sind i.d.R. durch Unsicherheit, Irreversibilität und zeitliche Flexibilität gekennzeichnet. Bei einfachen Kapitalwertberechnungen wird dies nicht berücksichtigt. Aber auch die flexible Investitionsplanung mit Hilfe von Entscheidungsbäumen, die den am weitesten...

Claiming analogy with financial option pricing the real options approach assumes that the present value of investment cash flows (or: real asset value) can be replicated by a risk-free financial portfolio; that is, this present value is considered to be equivalent to an asset value in a complete...