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Real-option valuation in multiple dimensions using Poisson optional stopping times

Accepted version
Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Lange, R-J 
Store, K 

Abstract

We provide a new framework for valuing multidimensional real options where opportunities to exercise the option are generated by an exogenous Poisson process; this can be viewed as a liquidity constraint on decision times. This approach, which we call the Poisson optional stopping times (POST) method, finds the value function as a monotone sequence of lower bounds. In a case study, we demonstrate that the frequently used quasi-analytic method yields a suboptimal policy and an inaccurate value function. The proposed method is demonstrably correct, straightforward to implement, reliable in computation and broadly applicable in analyzing multidimensional option-valuation problems.

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Keywords

3502 Banking, Finance and Investment, 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services

Journal Title

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

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Journal ISSN

0022-1090
1756-6916

Volume Title

55

Publisher

Cambridge University Press
Sponsorship
University of Cambridge Judge Business School small research grant 2016