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y The difference between risk

and uncertainty

Risk - when the decision maker knows the probability of each and every state of nature and thus each and every outcome. An expected value of each alternative action can be determined

Uncertainty - when a decision maker has information that is not complete and therefore cannot determine the expected value of each alternative

Project Analysis Under Risk

Incorporating risk into project analysis through adjustments to the discount rate, and by the certainty equivalent factor.

What is Risk?

yRisk is the variation of future

expectations around an expected value. Risk is measured as the range of variation around an expected value. Risk and uncertainty are interchangeable words.

Handling Risk

 Risk may be accounted for by (1) applying a discount rate commensurate with the riskiness of the cash flows, and (2), by using a certainty equivalent factor

Risk may be accounted for by evaluating the project using sensitivity and breakeven analysis. Risk may be accounted for by evaluating the project under simulated cash flow and discount rate scenarios.

Analysis Under Risk

yRisk is the variation in future cash

flows around a central expected value. yRisk can be accounted for by adjusting the NPV calculation discount rate: there are two methods either the WACC, or the CAPM

yRisk can also be accommodated

via the Certainty Equivalent Method. yAll methods require management judgment and experience.

Simulation

Simulation is a flexible methodology we can use to analyze the behavior of a present or proposed business activity, new product, manufacturing line or plant expansion, and so on (analysts call this the 'system' under study).

By performing simulations and analyzing the results, we can gain an understanding of how a present system operates, and what would happen if we changed it -- or we can estimate how a proposed new system would behave

Often -- but not always -- a simulation deals with uncertainty, in the system itself, or in the world around it.

Sensitivity Analysis

A technique used to determine how different values of an independent variable will impact a particular dependent variable under a given set of assumptions.

This technique is used within specific boundaries that will depend on one or more input variables, such as the effect that changes in interest rates will have on a bond's price.

Scenario Analysis

The process of estimating the expected value of a portfolio after a given period of time, assuming specific changes in the values of the portfolio's securities or key factors that would affect security values, such as changes in the interest rate.

Using a Risky Discount Rate

yThe structure of the cash flow

discounting mechanism for risk is:-

The $ amount used for a risky cash


flow is the expected dollar value for that time period.
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 A risky rate is a discount rate


calculated to include a risk premium. This rate is known as the RADR, the Risk Adjusted Discount Rate.

Decision Trees

yA decision tree is a chronological

representation of the decision problem. yEach decision tree has two types of nodes; round nodes correspond to the states of nature while square nodes correspond to the decision alternatives.

Decision Tree Analysis

yA graphical tool

for describing (1) the actions available to the decision-maker,

(2) the events that can occur, and (3) the relationship between the actions and events.

Competitors price

Conditional Profit

Decision Points
Events

Our Price
High

High (0.5) (0.5) Low

$60 -$20

) Probability Market Competitive Product (0.7)

High

$40
(0.2) (0.8)

No Competitive Product (0.3) Do not market

Low Low High

$10 $100

$0
First Decision Point

Low

$30
Second Decision Point

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