Risk measurement in profitability calculation of non-financial investment

Financial Risk Measurement for Financial Risk Management∗

Current practice largely follows restrictive approaches to market risk measurement, such as historical simulation or RiskMetrics. In contrast, we propose flexible methods that exploit recent developments in financial econometrics and are likely to produce more accurate risk assessments, treating both portfoliolevel and asset-level analysis. Asset-level analysis is particularly challenging becau...

Mathematical Model of Financial Investment Risk

This paper establishes the income and risk model in financial investment based on multi-objective programming theory, aiming to analyze the relationship between risk and return in financial investment and discuss the relationship between the risk the investor shall bear and decentralization degree of investment project. MATLAB software is used to analyze the investor’s optimized return under fi...

Profitability, investment, and efficiency wages

We examine a model that blends the neoclassical theory of investment with an intertemporal efficiency wage model with turnover costs. Investment decisions in capital are associated with the allocation of labor and the determination of efficiency wages. The model relates Tobin’s q to efficiency wages and, in particular, to the Solow condition. It provides a general framework to analyze firm’s in...

Risk Measurement for Financial Institutions

Accounting for seismic risk in financial analysis of property investment

ABSTRACT: A methodology is presented for making property investment decisions using loss analysis and the principles of decision analysis. It proposes that the investor choose among competing investment alternatives on the basis of the certainty equivalent of their net asset value which depends on the uncertain discounted future net income, uncertain discounted future earthquake losses, initial...