Risk in Transport Investments

Networks and Spatial Economics - Tập 12 - Trang 187-204 - 2009
André de Palma1,2, Nathalie Picard2,3,4, Laetitia Andrieu5
1ENS Cachan, Paris, France
2Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
3THEMA, University of Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy-Pontoise Cedex, France
4INED, Paris, France
5ENPC, Paris, France

Tóm tắt

We discuss how the standard Cost-Benefit Analysis should be modified in order to take risk (and uncertainty) into account. We propose different approaches used in finance (Value at Risk, Conditional Value at Risk, Downside Risk Measures, and Efficiency Ratio) as useful tools to model the impact of risk in project evaluation. After introducing the concepts, we show how they could be used in CBA and provide some simple examples to illustrate how such concepts can be applied to evaluate the desirability of a new project infrastructure.

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