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The Value of Green Energy: Optimal Investment in Mutually Exclusive Projects and Operating Leverage

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  • Jerome Detemple
  • Yerkin Kitapbayev
  • Philip Strahan

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We study investments in exclusive projects with different cost structures. Our analysis incorporates the possibility of producing a stochastic revenue stream from two alternative technologies with a stochastic variable cost and a fixed cost, respectively, and accounts for project managers’ endogenous operating decisions. The optimal investment decision is characterized by two possibly nonmonotone boundaries. We examine the effect of operating leverage on managerial policies, investment decisions, and values and carry out an application to power generation projects. We assess the impact of knowledge acquisition, that is, investments in growth options. (JEL G13, Q40, Q42, L94)

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  • Jerome Detemple & Yerkin Kitapbayev & Philip Strahan, 2020. "The Value of Green Energy: Optimal Investment in Mutually Exclusive Projects and Operating Leverage," The Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies, vol. 33(7), pages 3307-3347.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:rfinst:v:33:y:2020:i:7:p:3307-3347.
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    Cited by:

    1. Andrea Mazzon & Peter Tankov, 2024. "Optimal stopping and divestment timing under scenario ambiguity and learning," Papers 2408.09349, arXiv.org, revised Oct 2024.
    2. Cinzia Bonaldo & Fulvio Fontini & Michele Moretto, 2022. "The Energy Transition and the Value of Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms," Working Papers 2022.16, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
    3. Detemple, Jerome & Kitapbayev, Yerkin, 2020. "The value of green energy under regulation uncertainty," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 89(C).
    4. Detemple, Jerome & Kitapbayev, Yerkin, 2022. "Optimal technology adoption for power generation," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 111(C).
    5. Flora, Maria & Tankov, Peter, 2023. "Green investment and asset stranding under transition scenario uncertainty," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 124(C).
    6. Jerome Detemple & Yerkin Kitapbayev, 2021. "Optimal Power Investment and Pandemics: A Micro-Economic Analysis," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(4), pages 1-25, February.
    7. Detemple, Jérôme & Kitapbayev, Yerkin & Reppen, A. Max, 2024. "Renewable energy investment under stochastic interest rate with regime-switching volatility," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 136(C).

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    JEL classification:

    • G13 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Contingent Pricing; Futures Pricing
    • Q40 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - General
    • Q42 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Alternative Energy Sources
    • L94 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Electric Utilities

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