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A real options approach for entering the Internet securities trading businesses with start‐up time

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  • Chin‐Tsai Lin
  • Tyrone T. Lin
  • Lung‐Chu Yeh

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This paper uses a real options approach to establish a new evaluation model under uncertainty of both the volume of Internet securities transactions and the total transaction volume of a securities firm. The proposed approach can assist securities firms in evaluating the optimal thresholds for entering the Internet securities trading business and withdrawing from the conventional securities trading business. This paper assumes that the annual number of Internet securities transactions and the total annual number of securities transactions both follow a geometric Brownian motion. Besides, this model considers a start‐up time to complete the entry project's procedure. Accordingly, a decision model based on the real options approach is introduced, and the closed form solutions for the optimal threshold values of the entry or withdrawal models are determined. The conclusions provide some valuable references to help strategic managers of securities firms in making decisions on entering the Internet securities trading business or withdrawing from the conventional trading business. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Chin‐Tsai Lin & Tyrone T. Lin & Lung‐Chu Yeh, 2003. "A real options approach for entering the Internet securities trading businesses with start‐up time," Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 19(4), pages 349-360, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:apsmbi:v:19:y:2003:i:4:p:349-360
    DOI: 10.1002/asmb.505
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