Corn-Ethanol Plant Investment: A Real Options Case Study

William Secor and Michael Boland

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2017, vol. 99, issue 2, 524-531

Abstract: The objective of this article is to describe an investment decision using net present value and real options. A case study describes the data and the corn-ethanol industry so students can study a cooperative’s decision of whether or not to invest in a new corn-ethanol plant in 2015 Nebraska. An extensive set of information accompanies this case, including spreadsheets with data, computer software code, lesson plans for teaching real options and net present value, and an extensive teaching note.

Keywords: Agribusiness; agricultural finance; cooperatives; corn; ethanol; net present value; real options (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C61 D92 L66 Q13 Q14 Q42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1093/ajae/aaw102 (application/pdf)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oup:ajagec:v:99:y:2017:i:2:p:524-531.

Access Statistics for this article

American Journal of Agricultural Economics is currently edited by Madhu Khanna, Brian E. Roe, James Vercammen and JunJie Wu

More articles in American Journal of Agricultural Economics from Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Oxford University Press ().