Real options analysis of investment in carbon capture and sequestration technology

Computational Management Science

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 109-138

  Heydari, Somayeh ^a   Ovenden, Nick ^a   Siddiqui, Afzal ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

CCS; Geometric Brownian motion; Mutually exclusive options; Real options analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855225460     PISSN: 1619697X     EISSN: 16196988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10287-010-0124-5     Document Type: Article

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