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Essays on Stock Options Expensing and Stock Options Backdating
"Study 3 examines changes in options backdating behavior to two accounting events during the post-Sarbanes Oxley Act (""SOX"") period. During this time, the FASB added stock options expensing to its agenda (""event 1"") and eventually issued the options expensing accounting standard and implemented …
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Options in emerging markets.
Index options are traded in many derivatives markets around the world. These derivatives markets can either operate in efficient or inefficient markets. Most derivatives markets use the best known option pricing model, i. e. the Black and Scholes Option Pricing Model, in order to produce …
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Derivative pricing with options.
… that we already know the prices of the vanilla options. If we are to avoid introducing arbitrage possibilities, then this is the same as finding a model under which the discounted asset price is a martingale and for which every vanilla option has its price equal to the expected value of its …
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Options on shipbuilding contracts
… do not know how to calculate. Newbuilding options give shipowners closing newbuilding contracts a right, but not an obligation, to enter into additional newbuilding contracts, with predetermined terms, at a later date. This thesis presents a general introduction to option theory as it …
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Real options in corporate finance
… Aðferð sem byggir á verðleggingu valrétta (e. Options) á fjármálamörkuðum hefur verið þróuð til að takast á við galla fyrri aðferða. Hún felst í því að verðleggja fjárfestingar í heimi þar sem fjárfestar eru hlutlausir vegna þeirrar áhættu sem er á markaðnum. Raunvilnanir (e. Real options) geta …
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Adaptive preferences and children's options
… this way, while people may legitimately prefer options that seem to third parties to be unattractive or marginalizing, these preferences only deserve full deference when they have been chosen from among valuable alternatives. Finally, I turn to the issue of children. This issue is especially …
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Adaptive preferences and children's options
… this way, while people may legitimately prefer options that seem to third parties to be unattractive or marginalizing, these preferences only deserve full deference when they have been chosen from among valuable alternatives. Finally, I turn to the issue of children. This issue is especially …
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Are Agricultural Options Too Expensive
Corn, soybean, wheat and hog options trading volume has grown steadily. At the same time there is a persistent complaint about the high price of options. These complaints argue that, options trinkets are inefficient. If these claims are true, farmers would be buying expensive insurance, investors …
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Pricing methods for American options
… of Pricing models for the valuation of American Options. Three classes of numerical approaches are considered. These are Lattice Methods, Analytic Approximations and Monte Carlo Simulation. Methods will be contrasted in terms of accuracy and speed of the computed American option price. One …
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Accounting for employee stock options
The use of ESOs as a form of employee remuneration has grown dramatically in recent years, fuelling a significant amount of research. The current accounting standards (IFRS 2 and IAS 33) do not reference this research and as a result the accounting records do not accurately reflect the economic …
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Flexible options in semiconductor design
In semiconductor design, system architects must find the right balance between competing goals [1]: 1. Creating customer value with low average development costs to minimize overhead over a range of products. 2. Fulfilling customer demand with the lowest per unit cost to maximize profit. 3. …
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Vessel valuation : an options approach
… of managerial and operating flexibility as real options. Similar to options on financial assets, real options involve decisions or rights, with no obligation, to acquire or exchange an asset or project for a pre-specified price. Within the shipping industry the application of real options on …
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Real options valuation of eBusiness
… valuing an eBusiness, this paper finds that real options valuation is an extremely useful analytical tool for valuing eBusiness projects from the management's perspective. It provides management a powerful extension of the traditional cash flow budgeting models, and a structure to attach and …
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Static replication of exotic options
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.
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Real options "in" projects and systems design : identification of options and solutions for path dependency
… approach to identify and deal with real options in" projects, that is, those real options (flexibility) that are integral parts of the technical design. It represents a first attempt to specify analytically the design parameters that provide good opportunities for flexibility for any …
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An Integrated Real options Framework for model-based identification and valuation of options under uncertainty
… of managing uncertainties and leverages real options analysis that provides a theoretical foundation for quantifying the value of flexibility. Real options analysis has traditionally been applied to the valuation of capital investment decisions by considering managerial flexibility. More …
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Real Options Models in Real Estate
… thesis is to investigate the usefulness of real options analysis, taking case studies of problems in real estate. In the realm of real estate, we consider the following three problems. First, we consider the valuation and usefulness of presale contracts of condominiums, which can be viewed as …
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Some Insurance Options on Stochastic Drawdowns
Insurance and options have been often used by investors to protect themselves from market crashes and significant financial losses. Thanks to its desired features, drawdowns can be a very useful tool in the marketplace, allowing investors to protect against the downside risks which commonly occur …
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biological treatment options of multiple myeloma
Multiple myeloma encompasses 10% of hematological malignancies and is characterised by end organ damage and the presence of bone lesions. Currently, myeloma therapies involve the use of combinations of multiple agents from various classes. These include proteosome inhibitors, monoclonal antibodies, …
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