Real Options and Investments. Theoretical approach and applications

Academic Paper from the year 2022 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 1,0, International School Of Management, Campus Frankfurt, language: English, abstract: This term paper will start with providing an introduction to real options. Here the term itself will be explained, classified and compared to financial options. Subsequent it will be described where real options can be found and some popular examples will be explained. In the following Chapter the valuation of real options will be discussed. Approaches from the capital budgeting perspective as well as approaches from the option price modelling perspective are analysed, compared to each other and evaluated.