Abstract–Behavioral Risk Constraints in Capital Budgeting

O. Maurice Joy and F. Hutton Barron

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 1974, vol. 9, issue 5, 763-763

Abstract: This paper presents a descriptive theory of risk that may be applied to capital budgeting decisions. The proposed theory is actually much more general than a theory of financial risk and is consistent with reported laboratory experiments. The essential feature of this theory is the role that risk descriptively plays as a constraint in the decision-making process. Specifically, risk is modeled as a chance constraint such that projects are rejected if the probability of “failure” is larger than some prescribed level. This has the effect of making all investment decisions chance-constrained programming problems, although some classes of problems have trivial solution procedures. In this context, risk serves to “strike out” or eliminate alternatives from consideration.

Date: 1974
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