Real Options Analysis - Tools and Techniques for Valuing Strategic Investment and Decisions

Real options analysis has become a key management tool for many of today's businesses. It is an accurate method for estimating the value of corporate investments, and it can be effectively utilized in situations where management has flexibility in large capital budget decisions with high uncertainty.

Completely revised and updated to meet the challenges of today's dynamic business environment, Real Options Analysis, Second Edition offers a fresh look at evaluating capital investment strategies by taking the strategic decision-making process into consideration. This comprehensive guide provides both a qualitative and quantitative description of real options; the methods used in solving real options; why and when they are used; and the applicability of these methods in decision making.

Real Options Analysis, Second Edition is divided into three informative parts. Part One looks at the qualitative nature of real options, providing actual business cases and scenarios of real options in the industry, as well as high-level explanations of how real options provide much-needed insights for decision making. Complete with worked-out examples and mathematical formulae, Part Two looks at the mathematical concepts and step-by-step quantitative analysis needed to effectively use real options in the decision-making process. Finally, in Part Three, you'll discover how to use Real Options Valuation's Super Lattice Solver and Risk Simulator software-both developed by author lohnathan Mun and included in the companion CD-ROM (standard thirty-day trial)-to perform real options analysis like never before.