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This paper deals with the use of the CAPM for capital budgeting purposes. Four different measures are deductively drawn …
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evident changes have occurred: risk-free rates in solid and developed financial markets (e. g. USA, Germany) have fallen, but … due to increased market volatility, the risk premiums have increased. The latter is especially evident in transition …
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simulation, real options, decision trees, multicriteria utility function under risk, theory of games and methods of portfolio …Importance of risk and uncertainty in present period of dynamic changes grows. The article deals with risk and … uncertainty in strategic decision making. First the concepts of risk and uncertainty and possibilities of their measurement are …
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Risk is a reality of the economic environment, with consequences which cannot always be foreseen or anticipated. Risk … management becomes more stringent as potential exo/endogenous vulnerability factors are rapidly increasing. Identifying risk … areas, structuring risk factors and defining their probability, optimal management of resources in order to reduce risk …
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The management of a company must fulfill at least two essential conditions in order to achieve the goal of maximizing the market value of the company: efficiently using the existent resources and the opportunity of increasing or decreasing the capital stock. The second condition implies a...
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This paper provides an introduction to a form of financial innovation which is the relatively recent phenomenon of asset backed securisation (ABS). An overview of the related issues and importance of this trend towards asset backed securisation in the UK by financial institutions is provided....
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This paper generalizes the theory of irreversible investment under uncertainty by allowing for risk averse investors in … the absence of com-plete markets.Until now this theory has only been developed in the cases of risk neutrality, or risk … price that distinguishes price regions in which it is optimal for a risk averse investor to invest and price regions in …
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We analyze the financing of an expansion project, as well as the pre-expansion capital structure decision. Using too much equity (debt) in the expansion financing results in under (over)-investment relative to the first-best (total firm value maximizing) policy. We identify the expansion...
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Contracts are examined when outcomes depend on managers' choices as well as efforts. As the cost of effort shrinks relative to payoffs, the optimal contract converges to a linear payoff if the control space of the agent has full dimensionality, but not otherwise. Thus, when the agent can trade...
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In this paper I identify optimal incentive contracts for managers of firms competing in the product market. Such firms often confront similar decisions and uncertainties. Managers can improve decision quality by generating private signals through costly effort. However, since signals are likely...
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