LO 8.4 VaR Impact of Large Project

VaR impact-Large Project

Decision
Notes:
Significance
5%
= Significance = 1-confidence
Critical value (z)
 (1.64)
CAPM
Riskless rate
5.00%
Equity premium
4.00%
Firm before project
Cash flow (CF)
$100.0
CF volatility
$20.0
CFAR
-$32.9
= CF volatility x critical value
Additional large project
Investment
$50.0
CF volatility
$30.0
Correlation
0.5
between firm CF and large project CF
Project beta w/ respect to market portfolio
0.5
co-movement with market
Payoff (end of single period)
$60.0
COC
7.00%
 = riskless rate + (equity premium x beta)
Project NPV
$6.1
 = discounted payoff - investment
Firm plus add'l large project
Vol of cash flow, incl. project
$43.6
classic 2-asset portfolio volatility, but with cash flows
CFaR, including project
-$71.7
= volatility x critical value
Cost of CFaR/dollar
$0.10
How much does an additional $1 of CFaR cost the firm?
Project NVP, adjusted for CFaR
$2.2
= project NPV - incremental cost of CFaR (i.e., net benefit - net cost)