Resum
This paper uses a stylized agency model to evaluate the economic efficiency of options contracts when pay-off uncertainty is bimodal, a situation rather common when projects either 'fail' or 'succeed'. We find that 'options' are strictly preferred to 'stock' (i.e. linear contracts) when output uncertainty is large, i.e. when the spread between the modes of the pay-off distribution is sufficiently high. © 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd and The University of Manchester.
Idioma original | Anglès |
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Pàgines (de-a) | 218-236 |
Revista | Manchester School |
Volum | 82 |
Número | 2 |
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Estat de la publicació | Publicada - 1 de març 2014 |