Decision analysis and real options: A discrete time approach to real option valuation

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-39

  Brandão, Luiz E ^a   Dyer, James S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision trees; Lattice methods; Real options

Indexed keywords

EID: 24144484608     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-005-6233-9     Document Type: Article

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