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...

This paper proposes a new discount rate that pension funds can use to discount their future obligations. If the payouts of a pension fund depend on the return of the fund's assets, then neither the risk-free rate nor the expected return is an equitable way to discount future liabilities. Using...