Option exercise with temptation

Economic Theory

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 473-501

  Miao, Jianjun ^a,b,c  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Preproperation; Procrastination; Real options; Self control; Temptation; Time (in)consistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 37249070863     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-006-0194-3     Document Type: Article

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