Valuation and Return Dynamics of New Ventures
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- 11 August 2003
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Review of Financial Studies
- Vol. 17 (1) , 1-35
- https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhg021
Abstract
A dynamic model of a multistage investment project that captures many features of research and development (R&D) ventures and start-up companies is developed. An important feature these problems share is that firms learn about the potential profitability of the project throughout its life, but that technical uncertainty about the R&D effort is only resolved through additional investment. Consequently the risks associated with the ultimate cash flows have a systematic component even while the purely technical risks are idiosyncratic. Our model captures these different sources of risk and allows us to study their interaction in determining the value and risk premium of the venture.Keywords
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