Announcement and Call for Papers

14th Annual International Real Options Conference:
Theory Meets Practice

June 16-19, 2010

Rome, Italy

Organized by

Real Options Group
LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy

in cooperation with Northwestern University and UCLA

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Information about the local arrangements is coming soon.
Local contact Vicki Machin <vmachin@luiss.it>

AIM: To bring together academics and practitioners at the forefront of real options and investment under uncertainty to discuss recent developments and applications. The conference features academic and professional presentations of theoretical and applied work, workshops and case discussions, experiences from the field and panel discussions.

TOPICS: Any paper on the theory or application of real options. Possible topics include: competition and strategy, R&D, entrepreneurship and innovation, new product development, capabilities, infrastructure and network investments, valuation of natural resources, commodities and power investments, growth options, corporate valuation and IPOs, investments involving learning, agency issues and incentives, environmental protection and public policy, case studies etc. We expect to have sessions on telecoms, pharmaceuticals, oil/energy, innovation, and various public policy issues. We are especially interested in applied or empirical papers, and case studies in these and various other industries.

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES:

2009 Michael J. Brennan (U. Manchester)
2008 Tom Copeland (MIT)
2007 Mark Rubinstein (UC Berkeley)
2006 Robert C. Merton (Harvard U.)
2005 Robert S. Pindyck (MIT)
2004 Stewart C. Myers (MIT)
2003 Alex Triantis (U. Maryland)
2002 Gordon Sick (U. Calgary)
2001 Eduardo Schwartz (UCLA)
2000 Myron Scholes (Stanford U.)
1999 Stephen A. Ross (MIT)
1998 Robert L. McDonald (Northwestern U.)
1997 Michael J. Brennan (UCLA)

SUBMISSION: Please register on the conference website by filling the paper submission form at this website and submit a (nearly) completed paper or detailed abstract by January 31, 2010. The online submissions form provides a way for you to submit an Adobe® Acrobat® PDF or Word® file as either a URL to your paper or submit the entire paper in an email. Please use the American Finance Association submission instructions described on our website. The title page should include the affiliation, address, phone, and e-mail of each author.

REVIEW & PUBLICATION: Submitted papers will be reviewed by a committee headed by Professors Lenos Trigeorgis (U. Cyprus), Raffaele Oriani and Francesco Baldi (LUISS), Michael Brennan (U. Manchester), Robert McDonald (Northwestern U.), Gordon Sick (U. Calgary), Marco Dias (PUC Rio), Alex Triantis (U. Maryland), Dean Paxson (U. Manchester), Sigbjorn Sodal (Agder U., Norway), and John Kensinger (U.N. Texas). In addition, the best submitted papers may be considered for publication, after a standard review process, in in a special issue of a refereed journal or in forthcoming edited books on real options to be published by Oxford University Press or Cambridge University Press.

No fees can be waived for presenters. Submission and acceptance of a paper is with the understanding that one of the authors will present at the conference and is able to cover their full expenses.

ORGANIZERS: Lenos Trigeorgis (U. of Cyprus & ROG), Raffaele Oriani and Francesco Baldi (LUISS), Michael Brennan (U. Manchester), Robert McDonald (Northwestern U.). VP local arrangements: Francesco Baldi (LUISS).

NOTIFICATION & INQUIRIES: Please address all registration and other conference-related inquiries to conference.registration@realoptions.org.

RELATED BACK-TO-BACK PRACTITIONER CONFERENCE: Academics (only) attending this conference are entitled to receive a 50% discount on the accompanying back-to-back practitioner conference on Real Options Valuation in the Knowledge Economy (June 16-17) in the same location. Practitioners or consultants interested to share their application experiences as speakers or panelists at the practitioner conference should contact the organizers via the conference website or email a proposal to Lenos Trigeorgis at lenos@ucy.ac.cy

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