GEN CMB LL CORP FINC; CNCT
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Author: Stephen A. Ross Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics Professor, Randolph W Westerfield Robert R. Dockson Deans Chair in Bus. Admin., Jeffrey Jaffe, Bradford D Jordan Professor
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Chapter 23, Problem 5QP
Real Options Jet Black is an international conglomerate with a petroleum division and is currently competing in an auction to win the right to drill for crude oil on a large piece of land in one year. The current market price of crude oil is $103 per barrel, and the land is believed to contain 435,000 barrels of oil. If found, the oil would cost $75 million to extract. Treasury bills that mature in one year yield a continuously
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