We examine the valuation of projects in a setting where an investor can invest in a portfolio of private projects as well as in securities in financial markets, but where exact replication of project cash flows in financial markets is not necessarily possible. We consider both single-period and multi-period models, and develop an inverse optimization procedure for valuing projects in this setti...

The efficient market hypothesis states that the market incorporates all available information to provide an accurate valuation of the asset at any given time. However, most models for forecasting the return or volatility of assets completely disregard the arrival of asset specific news (i.e., news which is directly relevant to the asset). In this paper we propose a simple adaptation to the GARC...

In this paper we present a method for valuing a power plant over a short term period using Monte Carlo sim ulation The power plant valuation problem is formu lated as a multi stage stochastic problem We assume there are hourly markets for both electricity and the fuel used by the generator and their prices follow some Ito processes At each hour the power plant opera tor must decide to run or no...

Measuring value and interest rate risk in retail financial markets such as the market for consumer deposits has proven to be a very difficult problem for financial firms. Standard models of value and interest rate risk (duration), based on the competitive market paradigm, are inappropriate in retail markets characterized by sluggish price and quantity behavior. Although the penetration of sophi...

Traditionally, the real estate asset assessment is performed by experienced valuators, who take into account its economic, social, physical and locational aspects. Nowadays, the construction industry is becoming more and more influenced by the sustainability requirements. Therefore, the inclusion of the sustainability evaluation into real estate asset valuation is of utmost importance. The Neut...

Several partners jointly own an asset that may be traded among them. Each partner has a valuation for the asset; the valuations are known privately and drawn independently from a common probability distribution. We characterize the set of all incentive-compatible and interim-individually-rational trading mechanisms, and give a simple necessary and sufficient condition for such mechanisms to dis...

In this article we develop alternative ways to compare asset pricing models when it is understood that their implied stochastic discount factors do not price all portfolios correctly. Unlike comparisons based on x2 statistics associated with null hypotheses that models are correct, our measures of model performance do not reward variability of discount factor proxies. One of our measures is des...

We consider an asset-liability management (ALM) problem for a defined benefit pension fund (PF). The PF manager is assumed to follow a maximal fund valuation problem facing an extended set of risk factors:  due to the longevity of the    PF members, the inflation affecting salaries in real terms and future incomes, interest rates and market factors affecting jointly the PF liability and asset p...