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http://dx.doi.org/10.7855/IJHE.2014.16.1.075

Economic Evaluation of National Highway Construction Projects using Real Option Pricing Models  

Jeong, Seong-Yun (한국건설기술연구원, 서울과학기술대학교)
Kim, Ji-Pyo (서울과학기술대학교 글로벌융합산업공학과)
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International Journal of Highway Engineering / v.16, no.1, 2014 , pp. 75-89 More about this Journal
Abstract
PURPOSES : This study evaluates the economic value of national highway construction projects using Real Option Pricing Models. METHODS : We identified the option premium for uncertainties associated with flexibilities according to the future's change in national highway construction projects. In order to evaluate value of future's underlying asset, we calculated the volatility of the unit price per year for benefit estimation such as VOTS, VOCS, VICS, VOPCS and VONCS that the "Transportation Facility Investment Evaluation Guidelines" presented. RESULTS : We evaluated the option premium of underlying asset through a case study of the actual national highway construction projects using ROPM. And in order to predict the changes in the option value of the future's underlying asset, we evaluated the changes of option premium for future's uncertainties by the defer of the start of construction work, the contract of project scale, and the abandon of project during pre-land compensation stages that were occurred frequently in the highway construction projects. Finally we analyzed the sensitivity of the underlying asset using volatility, risk free rate and expiration date of option. CONCLUSIONS : We concluded that a highway construction project has economic value even though static NPV had a negative(-) value because of the sum of the existing static NPV and the option premium for the future's uncertainties associated with flexibilities.
Keywords
real option pricing model; economic evaluation; highway construction project; binominal option model; sensitivity analysis;
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