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(a) The common types of real options include delay, abandon, switch, expand and contract (Huchzermeier and Loch 2001). The implication of an option gives option holders great investment flexibility, which allows them to constantly re-evaluate option payoff and choose the actions with relatively higher option value. As Triantis (2000) suggests, real options can reduce risks if the firm can delay the decision making while not losing the competitive advantage in the same process, or if it is feasible

varying costs is because they all incorporate other factors. The money market hedge takes into account the opportunity cost which is the cost of debt for Merton. You can also use the WACC as the opportunity cost. The option takes into account the premium you must pay to buy the option and to exercise.

3. Background The first logic of a derivative occurred in the Middle East, 2000 BC, were signs of an option contract were a document was drawn authorizing the bearer to receive in fifteen days set weight of lead deposited with the priestesses of the temple (Einzing, 1970). A more familiar derivative is that in the book of Genesis 29 in the Old Testament, 1700 BC, where Jacob bought an option to marry Rachel after seven years of labour (Chance, 1998), since then with the development of regulation

rate options (for the buyer option) FRAs are binding agreements that must be settled at the settlement date. • FRAs are normally more expensive than comparable interest rate futures contracts: futures might therefore be preferred when tailor-made agreements are not necessary. • Once purchased, it does not have a market value and cannot be

With the plethora of bonds, funds, stock, etc. available in the market an individual must have sufficient information to make better financial decisions. To make this simple let us today look at (FCCB) foreign currency convertible bond. So what is foreign currency convertible bond (FCCB)? To make things much simpler we have broken the word (FCCB) foreign currency convertible bond into two simple words; foreign currency and convertible bond. Let us look at foreign currency, (FCCB) foreign currency

CASE STUDY Barings bank is the oldest bank in United Kingdom and the barings family have led the bank since 1763. Barings Bank was founded by Sir Francis Baring in 1762 and became a commercial bank (merchant banks) oldest in England. Because of his age, it's no wonder that banks have got good reputations. But in 1995, this bank collapsed due to losses which have ammounts USD 1.4 billion in business, that is far above its capital which approximately USD900 billion. Inability to pay the obligation

The most commonly used instrument for hedging are Forward Rate, Futures Rate and currency Options. According to Jean Folger (2012), Derivative is a contract between two or more parties whose value is based on an agreed-upon underlying financial asset, index or security. Then currency derivatives are a contract whose prices are partially derived

Grading Summary | These are the automatically computed results of your exam. Grades for essay questions, and comments from your instructor, are in the "Details" section below. | Date Taken: | 9/25/2011 | Time Spent: | 1 h , 14 min , 19 secs | Points Received: | 90 / 100  (90%) | | Question Type: | # Of Questions: | # Correct: | Short | 6 | N/A | | | Grade Details |  1. | Question : | (TCO C) Pate & Co. has a capital budget of $3,000,000. The company wants to

gains. While this is true for NSOs, there is a murky part of the rules on ISOs that implies that even with an 83(b) election, the capital gain holding period does not begin until the shares actually vest. So, if you want to immediately exercise an option and file an Section 83(b) election, and you might have liquidity soon, it’s better if you can have it be an NSO. Taxes on RSUs If you are awarded RSUs, each unit represents one share of stock that you will be given when the units vest. When

In the ADF level test, we cannot reject the null hypothesis that there is a unit root in each series of both VISA INC. and WATERS. This is shown in the LEVEL columns above. The 1st difference columns above show the output of the ADF test for the first-differenced series. All the series are significant so that they reject the null hypothesis. We can say that the first-differenced series are I(0), so they are stationary. And we can say that each level series contains a unit root and is integrated of