EBK CORPORATE FINANCE
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Author: Ross
Publisher: YUZU
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Chapter 23, Problem 4CQ
Real Options Utility companies often face a decision to build new plants that burn coal, oil, or both. If the prices of both coal and gas are highly volatile, how valuable is the decision to build a plant that can bum either coal or oil? What happens to the value of this option as the correlation between coal and oil prices increases?
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