Certainty equivalent coefficients and capital budgeting: A caveat

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...

Certainty equivalent measures of risk

We study a framework for constructing coherent and convex measures of risk that is inspired by infimal convolution operator, and which is shown to constitute a new general representation of these classes of risk functions. We then discuss how this scheme may be effectively applied to obtain a class of certainty equivalent measures of risk that can directly incorporate preferences of a rational ...

Certainty Equivalent in Portfolio Management

In portfolio selection, strategies on an efficient frontier have been regarded as nondominated solutions because of the compensation to each increase unit of risk, and a rational decision maker has to consider other supplementary decision rules. This paper proposes an approach that helps a rational decision maker identify the best candidate strategy on an efficient frontier by taking the concep...

How Do Cfos Make Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Decisions?