Lease-Option Contracts under the Conditional Sales Act

Optimal design of sales contracts under information asymmetry

We consider a supply chain where one manufacturer sells products to local markets through dealers. Each dealer faces a geographically dispersed market with uncertain demand, and is able to observe demand signal and exert effort to enhance sales. Both signal and effort affect the sales outcomes probabilistically, and cannot be observed by the manufacturer. Furthermore, dealers’ signals are corre...

THE LAW GOVERNING SALES OF GooDs AT COMMON LAW AND UNDER THE UNIFORM SALES ACT

Conditional sampling for barrier option pricing under the Heston model

We propose a quasi-Monte Carlo algorithm for pricing knock-out and knock-in barrier options under the Heston (1993) stochastic volatility model. This is done by modifying the LT method from Imai and Tan (2006) for the Heston model such that the first uniform variable does not influence the stochastic volatility path and then conditionally modifying its marginals to fulfill the barrier condition...

The Pricing of Embedded Options in Real Estate Lease Contracts

Leases and rental agreements often have options attached or embedded in them. These options sometimes depend on a number of economic variables such as the Consumer Price Index (CPI), a real estate index and/or the value of real estate underlying the agreement. The evaluation of these options often involves the solution or approximation to a partial differential equation (PDE). This study analyz...

Lease Terms, Option Pricing and the Financial Characteristics of Property

Traditional and standard discounted cash flow valuation techniques are unable to deal with a variety of options contained in lease contracts. In the UK, the most important embedded option is the upward-only rent review. This becomes more valuable to the landlord in an era of low inflation, as nominal market rents are more likely to fall. Lease contracts are freely negotiated between landlord an...