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Title: | Corporate valuation and optimal operation under liquidity constraints | ||||||
Author: | Cheng, Mingliang |
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0000 0004 6497 746X
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Awarding Body: | University of Manchester | ||||||
Current Institution: | University of Manchester | ||||||
Date of Award: | 2016 | ||||||
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We investigate the impact of cash reserves upon the optimal behaviour of a modelled firm that has uncertain future revenues. To achieve this, we build up a corporate financing model of a firm from a Real Options foundation, with the option to close as a core business decision maintained throughout. We model the firm by employing an optimal stochastic control mathematical approach, which is based upon a partial differential equations perspective. In so doing, we are able to assess the incremental impacts upon the optimal operation of the cash constrained firm, by sequentially including: an optimal dividend distribution; optimal equity financing; and optimal debt financing (conducted in a novel equilibrium setting between firm and creditor). We present efficient numerical schemes to solve these models, which are generally built from the Projected Successive Over Relaxation (PSOR) method, and the Semi-Lagrangian approach. Using these numerical tools, and our gained economic insights, we then allow the firm the option to also expand the operation, so they may also take advantage of favourable economic conditions.
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Supervisor: | Evatt, Geoffrey ; Johnson, Paul | Sponsor: | Not available | ||||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.728098 | DOI: | Not available | ||||
Keywords: | Semi-Lagrangian Methods ; Optimal Dividends ; Stochastic Control ; Optimal Investment ; Debt Financing ; Real Options ; Corporate Finance | ||||||
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