In early research about the
abandonment option, after the seminal work by Robichek and Van Horne [25], more and more literature has been concerned with
abandonment options in capital budget and investment decisions.
This article considers two cases that are subject to a contractual arrangement: (1) the renter can terminate the lease prematurely without penalty (embedded
abandonment option) or (2) the renter has to honor the lease terms over the life of the lease.
The second type of real option is an
abandonment option, which relates to the amount of spending on advertising.
A real option-based financial model that explicitly recognizes the
abandonment option when evaluating a project often increases the NPV.
Note further that because chattel property is destructible, the law conceivably could favor abandonment of chattels over abandonment of real property based on a fear that, in the absence of an
abandonment option, owners of positive-value chattels will destroy the resource in question.
Typically, there are five basic types of managerial flexibility to be identified: deferral option,
abandonment option, expansion option, contraction option, and switching option (9).
To value a project with an embedded
abandonment option, we focus on the salvage values.
abandonment option. (69) A plaintiff can exercise a learning option by
It called on the CSA to draw up contingency plans - including "the
abandonment option".
The reason is that, like conservatism, exercise of the
abandonment option produces losses that are more transitory than profits.
The present paper, on the other hand, relaxes the all-equity financing assumption and allows for debt-equity financing, but assumes that the firm decides irrevocably about asset duration at time zero; i.e., it assumes that the value of the
abandonment option is zero.
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Abandonment options allow exit from (or liquidation of) a project with limited expenses.
