The coherent risk framework is linked to martingale valuation by adding hedgeinvariance as a fifth axiom, motivated by the concept of consistent hedging. The resulting subclass, called coherent pre-hedge (CoPr) measures, is characterized by a martingale condition on the test set that underlies a coherent measure. It is also made explicit how consistent hedging, optimal as well as non-optimal, t...

This paper presents the results from a literature study on the value of information. I have reviewed the information, accounting and business literature to find economic attributes of information and information valuation attempts. There is at least some consensus on a number economic properties and identifying information as an asset to the organization. Also a number of valuation attempts hav...

Many communities are interested in developing and maintaining recreational trails to benefit trail users and as tourist attractions to stimulate economic growth. In this paper, a study is described which estimates the net economic value to trail users and the local economic impacts of the Virginia Creeper Rail Trail in south-western Virginia, USA. The monetary valuation results suggest that the...

Purpose – This study investigates the adequacy of existing intangible asset models and defines and codifies common principal valuation drivers of intangible assets for use in enterprise balanced scorecard valuation practices of information technology (IT) firms. Design/methodology/approach – Existing intangible asset balance scorecard valuation models and value chain models are evaluated to ext...

We consider the fair valuation of a participating life insurance policy with surrender options when the market values of the asset are modelled by Markov-modulated Geometric Brownian Motion (GBM). We reduce the dimension of the optimal stopping problem for the policy by changing probability measures. We also provide a decomposition result for the value of the policy. The Barone-Adesi-Whaley app...

We examine the valuation of projects in a setting where an investor can invest in a portfolio of private projects as well as in securities in financial markets, but where exact replication of project cash flows in financial markets is not necessarily possible. We consider both single-period and multi-period models, and develop an inverse optimization procedure for valuing projects in this setti...

This study examines whether investors incorporate the effect of employee and director bonuses into firm market valuation for a sample of 191 profitable high-tech firms during 2001-2007 in Taiwan. We use the Ohlson (1995) equity valuation model, and compare difference dilution ratio model’s explanation power. We find a negative correlation between the value of CSBs and Tobin’s Q but no significa...

We show that efficient exchange obtains independently of the degree to which a legal system protects the rights of owners. We study a number of different legal rules, including property rules (strong protection), liability rules (any party can take the owner’s asset but must pay a legally-determined compensation), and even rules that protect the owner’s interests very weakly (liability rules wi...

We develop an asset allocation approach that translates valuation signals into a suggested allocation. At its core, we simulate a mean-reverting value-price evolution to infer important distribution parameters as needed in our allocation rule. The latter relies on a broad range of parameters, thereby diversifying the model risk and making the framework stable. The simulation is calibrated to me...

We revisit the classical Merton portfolio selection model from the perspective of integrability analysis. By an application of a nonlocal transformation the nonlinear partial differential equation for the two-asset model is mapped into a linear option valuation equation with a consumption dependent source term an identical result to that obtained by Cox and Huang using measure theory and stocha...