Merck company should not bid to license the Davanrik.
Applying the decision tree model, I compute the cost from historic information and probabilities of both success and failure outcomes in each of the 3 phases. Then I calculate the expected value from the cash flow and probability of occurrence. For the decision to bid license, there are 5 possible outcomes that will be successful and 4 possible outcomes that will fail. The expected value for successful depression only is, that for weight is, and that for both is , while the expected value for failure is . Although the