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Giga-Investments: Modelling the Valuation of Very Large Industrial Real Investments

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  • Collan, Mikael

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In this doctoral dissertation characteristics of very large industrial real investments (VLIRI) are investigated and a special group of VLIRI is defined as giga-investments. The investment decision-making regarding to giga-investments is discussed from the points of view of discounted cash-flow based methods and real option valuation. Based on the bacground of establishing giga-investments, state-of-the-art in capital budgeting (including real options) and by applying fuzzy numbers a novel method for the evaluation and profitability analysis of giga-investments is presented. Application of the method is illustrated and issues regarding investment decision-making of large industrial real investments are discussed.

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 4328.

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Keywords: Real Options; Fuzzy Real Option Valuation; Giga-Investments; Very Large Industrial Real Investments; Dissertation;

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Cited by:
  1. Collan, Mikael, 2008. "New Method for Real Option Valuation Using Fuzzy Numbers," Working Papers 466, IAMSR, Åbo Akademi.
  2. Collan, Mikael & Fullér, Robert & József, Mezei, 2008. "A Fuzzy Pay-off Method for Real Option Valuation," MPRA Paper 13601, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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