Modeling breach of contract risk through bundled options

Haksöz, Çağrı and Şimşek, Koray Deniz (2010) Modeling breach of contract risk through bundled options. The Journal of Operational Risk, 5 (3). pp. 3-20. ISSN 1744-6740

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Abstract

In this paper, in order to model breach of contract risk, we design and value a bundled option that is composed of contract abandonment and price renegotiation. We numerically show that the bundled option is more valuable for the contract than either of the options, i.e., contract abandonment and price renegotiation, in isolation. This value increases monotonically as the spot price becomes more volatile. The value of the bundled option is less than the sum of the individual option values, hence showing the sub-additive property. We demonstrate that in the presence of high spot price volatility, the bundled option is more valuable when renegotiation date is selected to be closer to the half-life of the contract. We also show that early contract abandonment probability goes down in the presence of renegotiation option. We conclude that the commodity supplier should negotiate a supply chain contract with flexible options at the design stage with the buyer, obtaining contract abandonment and price renegotiation options –as a bundled option—in order to enhance the supply contract value and reduce the breach of contract risk.
Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Supply chain contracts, Procurement, Breach of contract risk, Abandonment and renegotiation options, Basel II -Clients, Products, Business Practices Category Risks-
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD0028 Management. Industrial Management
H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD0061 Risk Management
H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF4999.2-6182 Business
T Technology > TS Manufactures > TS0155-194 Production management. Operations management
H Social Sciences > HG Finance > HG176.6 Financial engineering
Divisions: Sabancı Business School
Sabancı Business School > Accounting and Finance
Sabancı Business School > Operations Management and Information Systems
Depositing User: Çağrı Haksöz
Date Deposited: 20 Oct 2010 15:00
Last Modified: 26 Apr 2022 08:41
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/14845

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