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Real options and risk aversion

Erwan Morellec, Julien Hugonnier

In the standard real options approach to investment under uncertainty, agents formulate optimal policies under the assumptions of risk neutrality or complete financial markets. Although these assumptions are crucial to the implications of the approach, the ...

2012

CEO Contract Design: How Do Strong Principals Do It?

Rüdiger Fahlenbrach

We study changes in chief executive officer (CEO) contracts when firms transition from public ownership with dispersed owners to private ownership with strong principals in the form of private equity sponsors. The most significant changes are that a signif ...

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper Series2012

Final-Focus Optics for the LHeC Electron Beam Line

José Luis Abelleira Fernández, Hector Garcia, Frank Zimmermann

One of the options considered for the ECFA-CERNNuPECC design study for a Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC) based on the LHC is adding a recirculating energy-recovery linac tangential to the LHC. First designs of the electron Final Focus System have sho ...

2012

Explaining asset pricing puzzles associated with the 1987 market crash

Pierre Collin Dufresne

The 1987 market crash was associated with a dramatic and permanent steepening of the implied volatility curve for equity index options, despite minimal changes in aggregate consumption. We explain these events within a general equilibrium framework in whic ...

Elsevier2011

Hedging Electricity Swing Options in Incomplete Markets

Daniel Kuhn, Wolfram Wiesemann

The deregulation of electricity markets renders public utilities vulnerable to the high volatility of electricity spot prices. This price risk is effectively mitigated by swing options, which allow the option holder to buy electric energy from the option w ...

2011

MAOA-L carriers are better at making optimal financial decisions under risk

Genes can affect behaviour towards risks through at least two distinct neurocomputational mechanisms: they may affect the value assigned to different risky options, or they may affect the way in which the brain adjudicates between options based on their va ...

2011

Variance Risk Premia in Energy Commodities

Anders Trolle

This paper investigates variance risk premia in energy commodities, particularly crude oil and natural gas, using a robust model-independent approach. Over a period of 11 years, we find that the average variance risk premia are significantly negative for b ...

2010

Real options valuation of fusion energy R&D programme

Edgard Gnansounou, Denis Bednyagin

This paper aims to perform a real options valuation of fusion energy R&D programme. Strategic value of thermonuclear fusion technology is estimated here based on the expected cash flows from construction and operation of fusion power plants and the real op ...

Elsevier2010

Option Contracting in the California Water Market

Thomas Alois Weber

Temporary water transfers, as achievable under option contracts, capture gains from trade that would go unrealized if only permanent transfers of water rights were possible. This paper develops a bilateral option contracting model for water which includes ...

Springer Verlag2010

Indentation induced damage in silicon nitride

Jean-François Molinari, Seyedeh Mohadeseh Taheri Mousavi

Presenting the goals of my Ph.D. project ...

2010