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| Type | Journal Article |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | An experimental study on real option strategies |
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| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Journal Title | Quantitative Finance |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
| Geographical Reach | international |
| ISSN | 1469-7688 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Number | 11 |
| Page Range | 1753 - 1772 |
| Date | 2012 |
| Abstract Text | We conduct a laboratory experiment to study whether people intuitively use real-option strategies in a dynamic investment setting. The participants were asked to play as an oil manager and make production decisions in response to a simulated mean-reverting oil price. Using cluster analysis, participants can be classified into four groups, which we label ‘mean-reverting’, ‘Brownian motion real-option’, ‘Brownian motion myopic real-option’, and ‘ambiguous’. We find two behavioral biases in the strategies of our participants: ignoring the mean-reverting process, and myopic behavior. Both lead to too frequent switches when compared with the theoretical benchmark. We also find that the last group behaved as if they have learned to incorporate the true underlying process into their decisions, and improved their decisions during the later stage. |
| Digital Object Identifier | 10.1080/14697688.2012.691984 |
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