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From:steven.leppard@enron.com
To:vince.kaminski@enron.com, grant.masson@enron.com, stinson.gibner@enron.com,zimin.lu@enron.com, olivier.herbelot@enron.com, soma.ghosh@enron.com
Subject:New real options presentation
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Date:Wed, 21 Jun 2000 03:13:00 -0700 (PDT)

All

Attached in the latest version of my real options presentation, which I'll be
presenting at a Real Options Group conference in Cambridge next month.

I've removed the gas storage pricing example, and instead put in a simple
example to show that my method can reproduce decision tree approaches (should
one wish to do so). This is a response to the heavily decision-tree
dominated approach taken by most people at the last conference I spoke at. I
want to demonstrate explicitly that my approach covers both decision tree and
option pricing as special cases, the synthesis needed for correct real option
valuation.

My presentation now covers:
1. Decision trees.
2. Binomial option pricing trees.
3. Power station valuation.
4. Power asset development.
The option pricing and power examples are based on the (too simplistic)
binomial tree method. I obviously won't indicate my thoughts on the most
correct way to do this.

Steve