A General Approach to Real Option Valuation with Applications to Real Estate Investments

Carol Alexander and Xi Chen

ICMA Centre Discussion Papers in Finance from Henley Business School, University of Reading

Abstract: We model investment opportunities with a single source of uncertainty, i.e. the market price of the investment. Investment cost can be predetermined or perfectly correlated with the market price. The common paradigm for risk-neutral real-option pricing is a special case en- compassed within our general framework, and we analyse the relationship between standard real option prices and the more general risk-averse real option values. Numerical examples illustrate how these general values depend on the frequency of decision opportunities, the investor's risk tolerance and its sensitivity to wealth, his expected return and volatility of the underlying asset, and the price of the asset relative to initial wealth. Specific applications to real estate include property investment under 'boom-bust' or mean-reverting price scenarios, and buy-to-let or land-development opportunities.

JEL-codes: C44 D81 G13 G30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-01
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