Real Options

Real Options

Author: Martha Amram

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780875848457

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Using real-world examples and clear case studies, the authors provide investors and managers with an innovative method for assessing a company's non-financial assets, allowing them to assess opportunities whose financial rewards are less than certain.


Fundamental Uncertainty

Fundamental Uncertainty

Author: Silva Marzetti Dall'aste Brandolini

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-06-16

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0230305687

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This volume addresses the subject of uncertainty from the point of view of an extended conception of rationality. In particular, the contributions explore the premises and implications of plausible reasoning when probabilities are non-measurable or unknown, and when the space of possible events is only partially identified.


Fundamental Models in Financial Theory

Fundamental Models in Financial Theory

Author: Doron Peleg

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2014-03-27

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 0262026678

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This book provides an innovative, integrated, and methodical approach to understanding complex financial models, integrating topics usually presented separately into a comprehensive whole. The book brings together financial models and high-level mathematics, reviewing the mathematical background necessary for understanding these models organically and in context. It begins with underlying assumptions and progresses logically through increasingly complex models to operative conclusions. Readers who have mastered the material will gain the tools needed to put theory into practice and incorporate financial models into real-life investment, financial, and business scenarios.


Strategic Power Plant Investment Planning Under Fuel and Carbon Price Uncertainty

Strategic Power Plant Investment Planning Under Fuel and Carbon Price Uncertainty

Author: Ansgar Geiger

Publisher: KIT Scientific Publishing

Published: 2014-08-20

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 3866446330

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The profitability of power plant investments depends strongly on uncertain fuel and carbon prices. In this doctoral thesis, we combine fundamental electricity market models with stochastic dynamic programming to evaluate power plant investments under uncertainty. The application of interpolation-based stochastic dynamic programming and approximate dynamic programming allows us to consider a greater variety of stochastic fuel and carbon price scenarios compared to other approaches.


The Complete Guide to Option Strategies

The Complete Guide to Option Strategies

Author: Michael Mullaney

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-05-04

Total Pages: 581

ISBN-13: 0470243759

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Important insights into effective option strategies In The Complete Guide to Option Strategies, top-performing commodity trading advisor Michael Mullaney explains how to successfully employ a variety of option strategies, from the most risky--selling naked puts and calls--to more conservative strategies using covered positions. The author covers everything from options on stocks, exchange-traded funds, stock indexes, and stock index futures to essential information on risk management, option "Greeks," and order placement. The book provides numerous tables and graphs to benefit beginning and experienced traders. Written by a CTA who has successfully employed various options strategies to generate market-beating returns, The Complete Guide to Option Strategies will be an important addition to any trader's library. Michael D. Mullaney (Jacksonville, FL) is a high-ranking commodity trading advisor who specializes in option selling strategies.


Noise Trading, Central Bank Interventions, and the Informational Content of Foreign Currency Options

Noise Trading, Central Bank Interventions, and the Informational Content of Foreign Currency Options

Author: Christian Pierdzioch

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2001-12-06

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9783540427452

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A flexible instrument to insure against adverse exchange rate movements are options on foreign currency. Often a relatively simple foreign currency option valuation model is used to address issues related to the pricing and hedging of such options. The results of many empirical studies document that real-world foreign currency option premia deviate from those predicted by the baseline model. In the first part of the book, it is shown that a noise trader model can help to explain the observed mispricing of the baseline foreign currency option pricing model. In the second part of the book, it is studied how policymakers can exploit the pricing errors of the baseline model. In particular, it is examined how option pricing theory can be applied to assess the effectiveness of central bank interventions in the foreign exchange market. To this end, a model is constructed to analyze the effectiveness of the interventions conducted by the Deutsche Bundesbank during the Louvre period.


Vinzenz Bronzin's Option Pricing Models

Vinzenz Bronzin's Option Pricing Models

Author: Wolfgang Hafner

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-11-18

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 3540857117

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In 1908, Vinzenz Bronzin, a professor of mathematics at the Accademia di Commercio e Nautica in Trieste, published a booklet in German entitled Theorie der Prämiengeschäfte (Theory of Premium Contracts) which is an old type of option contract. Almost like Bachelier’s now famous dissertation (1900), the work seems to have been forgotten shortly after it was published. However, almost every element of modern option pricing can be found in Bronzin’s book. He derives option prices for an illustrative set of distributions, including the Normal. - This volume includes a reprint of the original German text, a translation, as well as an appreciation of Bronzin's work from various perspectives (economics, history of finance, sociology, economic history) including some details about the professional life and circumstances of the author. The book brings Bronzin's early work to light again and adds an almost forgotten piece of research to the theory of option pricing.