This paper addresses the issue of project standby capacity optimization for capital budgeting. A detailed analysis and case study show that this is a particular real-option based situation, which solicits the use of statistical simulation. The method can be recommended as a useful heuristic for...

The paper examines the potential of stochastic simulation methods and Earnings at Risk method in risk analysis of farming business. The results revealed a different nature of yield and price risks in agriculture. The natural yields are low spatially correlated and the rate of yield risk depends...

At present time, when the rate of risk is increasing, achieving higher quality of investment decision-making by integrating risk and uncertainty factors could positively affect economical results and firm's prosperity. Firstly this article characterizes shortcomings of investment decision making...

The qualitative changes in surroundings for companies operation are calling for necessity of assertion new tools and method, which will help to increase the quality of decision making and firm evaluation. To these tools belong scenarios and Monte Carlo simulation. The aim of the article is to...

The article aims to survey recent advancements in risk management field. First a popular quantile-based risk measure Value-at-Risk (VaR), nowadays widely used to asses exposure to market and credit risk, is presented. Four different approaches are introduced, implemented and backtested on PSE...