The economic evaluation of ultra-long-lived investment projects is not only challenging due to the choice of the planning horizon but also due to the discounting of future uncertain cash flows. Thus, for real world investment decisions a better understanding of the project's risks and their...

Investors have a growing awareness that climate transition risks (such as carbon pricing policy) are among the new risk drivers of the financial system. One of the relevant implications of a shock in carbon price is the increase in business costs, which may diminish profitability and affect...

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of all the steps of asset allocation: detecting the market invariants; estimating the invariants' distribution; modeling the market at any horizon; defining optimality; accounting for estimation- and model-risk; including the practitioner's experience...

This paper suggests a solution to what has become known as the "private equity premium puzzle" (Moskowitz and Vissing-Jorgensen (2002)). We interpret occupational choice as a dynamic portfolio choice problem of a life-cycle investor facing a liquidity constraint and imperfect information about...