Announcement

16th Annual International Conference
June 27-30, 2012

London, England

Organized by

Real Options Group
London Business School

in cooperation with
Northwestern University and UCLA

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:
2011 Dean Paxson (Manchester U.)
2010 John Kensinger (U. N. Texas)
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)

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