Question

A real estate investor has the opportunity to purchase land currently zoned as residential. If the county board approves a request to rezone the property as commercial within the next year, the investor will be able to lease the land to a large discount firm that wants to open a new store on the property. However, if the zoning change is not approved, the investor will have to sell the property at a loss. Profits (in thousands of dollars) are shown in the following payoff table:

	State of Nature
	Rezoning Approved	Rezoning Not Approved
Decision Alternative	s1	s2
Purchase, d1	600	-200
Do not purchase, d2	0	0

(c)	If the option will cost the investor an additional $10,000, should the investor purchase the option? Enter your answer in thousands dollars. For example, an answer of $200 thousands should be entered as 200,000.
	- Select your answer -YesNoItem 5
	Why or why not?
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	What is the maximum that the investor should be willing to pay for the option?
	EVSI = $

Answer 1

Solution:

Given that

A real estate investor has the opportunity to purchase land currently zoned

Purchase, d_{1 600}

Do not purchase, d_{2 0}