Titre :

Valuing an investment project using no-arbitrage and the alpha-maxmin criteria: From Knightian uncertainty to risk

Auteur(s) :

Braouezec, Yann [Auteur]
Lille économie management - UMR 9221 [LEM]
Joliet, Robert [Auteur]
Lille économie management - UMR 9221 [LEM]

Titre de la revue :

Economics Letters

Pagination :

111-115

Éditeur :

Elsevier

Date de publication :

2019-05

ISSN :

0165-1765

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

Knightian uncertainty
Investment decision
Option to wait
No-arbitrage
α -maxmin

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances

Résumé en anglais : [en]

We consider a two-period irreversible investment decision problem in which the firm can either invest in period 0 or in period 1. The firm is assumed to be able to specify a set of three scenarios or more but not a probability ...
Lire la suite >We consider a two-period irreversible investment decision problem in which the firm can either invest in period 0 or in period 1. The firm is assumed to be able to specify a set of three scenarios or more but not a probability measure. Assuming the option to wait is valued with the no-arbitrage principle, when the firm makes use of the criteria α-maxmin, we show the firm ends up with a known probability measure that assigns a positive probability to three or four scenarios only.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Vulgarisation :

Non

Collections :

• Lille Économie Management (LEM) - UMR 9221

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