A Pragmatic Guide to Real Options, 2014

Aimed at practitioners with no prior expertise in the subject, this book helps readers build basic real options models to aid in decision-making. Providing a pragmatic and informative approach, the authors introduce basic probability theories, before putting these theories into a real-world context.

Table of Contents 1. How Net Present Value (NPV) is Implemented 2. Making Decisions Sequential 3. Option Terminology and an Introduction to Binomial Trees 4. Binomial Trees, Risk-Neutral Pricing, and American Style Options 5. Applying Real Option Analysis with NPV-Embedded Binomial Trees 6. Applying More Real Options Analysis into an NPV-Embedded Binomial Tree 7. Implementing an NPV-Embedded Binomial Tree from an NPV Analysis 8. Real Option Analysis and the Black-Scholes Model

Tom Arnold is F. Carlyle Tiller Chair in Business and Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Richmond, USA.