Supranormal Profits in Manufacturing and Real Options Theory
In this part of the article, I follow closely the exposition of the valuation formulas in the Financial Theory and Corporate Policy textbook by Copeland, Weston and Shastri.
Florian Semani
(Ph.D. Econ.) is an economist with many years of experience in the fields of transfer pricing and valuation. He has worked in the past as adjunct professor at NYU, as a member of the transfer pricing team at Andersen Tax, as a Senior Economist at the IRS and lately as deputy minister of finance in the Albanian government. At the IRS, his key role was providing litigation support as an inhouse advisor for legal cases of the IRS against large multinationals in front of The US Tax Court.
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