Real Options and Strategic Management

Home Assignment, Week 36

[BM] Chapter 20, problems 9 and 15.

9. FX Bank has succeeded in hiring ace foreign exchange trader, Lucinda Cable. Her remuneration package reportedly includes an annual bonus of 20 percent of the profits that she generates in excess of $100 million. Does Ms. Cable have an option? Does it provide her with the appropriate incentives?

15. Digital Organics has 10 million outstanding shares trading at $25 per share. It also has a large amount of debt outstanding, all coming due in one year. The debt pays interest at 8 percent. It has a par (face) value of $350 million, but is trading at a market value of only $280 million. The one-year risk-free interest rate is 6 percent.
a. Write out the put–call parity formula for Digital Organics’ stock, debt, and assets.
b. What is the value of the default put given up by Digital Organics’ creditors?

Home Assignment, Week 37

1. Give please FIVE examples of companies providing the list of their strengthes, weaknesses, opportunities, and threads in concrete terms.
You can use Wikipedia and company's sites.

2. Find the HURDLE size of investment (the cost of the plant) such that in the Basic Example company will invest immediately with lower cost and will postpone the investment with higher cost.

Home Assignment, Week 38

[BM] Chapter 21, Mini-Case "Bruce Honiball’s Invention" Questions 1. What kinds of options is Bruce proposing? How much would the options be worth? Would the equity-linked and bear-market deposits generate positive NPV for Gibb River Bank?

Home Assignment, Week 39

[BM] Chapter 21, Quiz, #8
[BM] Chapter 21, Practice Questions, #10