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Optimal stopping made easy by svetlana boyarchenko, sergei. Department of economics working papers, the university of texas at austin, department of economics. A presentvalue approach, journal of finance 65, 14391471. A short and simple proof of optimal exercise rules for the standard problems in the real options theory is given in the binomial and trinomial models, and, more generally, when the underlying uncertainty is modelled as. Calico science consulting email austin, tx united states. It is a good book to read if you want to understand the evolution of behavioral economics through time. This thesis consists of three essays in financial and monetary economics. Continuous time models in the theory of real options give explicit formulas for optimal exercise strategies when options are simple and the price of an underlying asset follows a geometric brownian motion. The repec blog the repec plagiarism page details about svetlana boyarchenko. In many cases, a problem which an optimizing agent faces can be formulated or reformulated as a problem of optimal timing of a certain irreversible or partially reversible action or optimal stopping problem. A break from tradition sees the authors presenting an alternative approach to optimal stopping problems. Track citations for all items by rss feed is something missing from the series or not right.
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