A NOTE ON BIAS IN CAPITAL BUDGETING INTRODUCED BY STOCHASTIC LIFE

Modelling Stochastic Political Risk for Capital Budgeting

In this paper we model political risk for international capital budgeting as the value of a hypothetical insurance policy that pays the holder any and all losses arising from political events. We address three important aspects of political risk that are widely acknowledged in the literature but either missing or incomplete in existing mathematical models: 1) loss causing political events arise...

A Note on Capital Budgeting: Treating a Replacement Project as Two Mutually Exclusive Projects

This note, with a numerical example, demonstrates that evaluating a replacement project is equivalent to assessing two mutually exclusive projects. This unconventional view requires no more knowledge on the part of students than what is required to evaluate a single expansion project. Textbooks typically use separate sections of a chapter to explain how to evaluate expansion projects and replac...

Fuzzy capital budgeting

Fuzzy equivalents of all the classical capital budgeting (investment choice) methods are generalised or proposed. These equivalents can be used to evaluate and compare projects in which the cash ows, duration time and required rate of return (cost of capital) are given imprecisely, in the form of a fuzzy number. c © 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Real Options – Capital Budgeting

Most investment decisions present the following three characteristics: • Irreversibility: The investment is partially or completely sunk, i.e. it cannot be recovered. • Uncertainty: The best that can be done is to assess the probabilities of the alternative outcomes that can imply larger or smaller profits. • Timing: The decision can be postponed in order to get more information (but never comp...

Cognitive Biases in Capital Budgeting