This paper examines the effect of gainsharing provisions on the selection of a discount rate for a defined benefit pension plan. The paper uses a traditional actuarial approach of discounting liabilities using the expected return of the associated pension fund. A stochastic Excel model was...

Expected utility of net present value is the practitioner's approach to incorporate risk aversion into the evaluation of a project's cash flows. The discount rate and the convergence with the risk-neutral beta-adjusted approach from finance have always been a question. To fill this gap, we adopt...