“…Indeed, HCs are only one example of commodity conversion assets. Other examples include natural gas and oil production facilities (Smith and McCardle, 1999), electricity transmission capacity (Deng et al, 2001), natural gas pipelines (Secomandi, 2010b, Secomandi and, natural gas storage facilities (Thompson et al, 2009, Secomandi, 2010a, Lai et al, 2010, Nadarajah et al, 2012a, Nadarajah et al, 2012b, Thompson, 2012, Wu et al, 2012, liquefied natural gas storage terminals (Lai et al, 2011), various cross-commodity conversion assets (Tseng and Barz, 2002, Tseng and Lin, 2007, Hahn and Dyer, 2008, Boyabatli et al, 2011, Devalkar et al, 2011, Wu and Chen, 2010, Adkins and Paxon, 2011, Dockendorf and Paxon, 2011, and energy swing (acquisition) assets (Jaillet et al, 2004, Nadarajah et al, 2012b. Dixit and Pindyck (1994), Clewlow and Strickland (2000), Ronn (2002), Eydeland and Wolyniec (2003), Kaminski (2004), Geman (2005), provide additional examples and references to the literature.…”