{"title":"Optimal land-for-property real exchange options","authors":"Duarte Moura , Paulo J. Pereira","doi":"10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112654","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper develops a real options framework to analyze land-for-property exchange agreements under uncertainty, focusing on the effects of bargaining power and impatience. We show that while bargaining power reallocates value without altering investment timing, impatience leads to earlier investment and destroys surplus, affecting only the impatient party. These findings underscore the importance of incorporating time preferences and negotiation dynamics in the design of incentive-compatible development contracts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11468,"journal":{"name":"Economics Letters","volume":"257 ","pages":"Article 112654"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8000,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Economics Letters","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176525004914","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ECONOMICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper develops a real options framework to analyze land-for-property exchange agreements under uncertainty, focusing on the effects of bargaining power and impatience. We show that while bargaining power reallocates value without altering investment timing, impatience leads to earlier investment and destroys surplus, affecting only the impatient party. These findings underscore the importance of incorporating time preferences and negotiation dynamics in the design of incentive-compatible development contracts.
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