Title
Fuzzy interval methods in investment risk appraisal
Abstract
Standard financial techniques neglect extreme situations and regards large market shifts as too unlikely to matter. This approach may account for what occurs most of the time in the market, but the picture it presents does not reflect the reality, as major events happen in the residual time and investors are ‘surprised’ by ‘unexpected’ market movements. An alternative fuzzy approach permits fluctuations well beyond the probability type of uncertainty and allows one to make fewer assumptions about the data distribution and market behaviour. We suggest a fuzzy criterion, and subsequently derive a measure of the risk associated with each investment opportunity and an estimate of the projects’ robustness towards market uncertainty. The procedure is applied to 35 UK companies traded on the London Stock Exchange. Finally, neural networks’ capabilities of approximating the fuzzy appraisal function are investigated, as an initial step towards building a soft investment classifier based on the developed alternative ranking technique.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1016/S0165-0114(03)00166-0
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Finance,Risk analysis,Fuzzy intervals
Financial risk,Econometrics,Stock exchange,Fuzzy set,Probability distribution,Artificial intelligence,Fuzzy control system,Valuation (finance),Ranking,Fuzzy logic,Operations research,Mathematics,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
142
3
0165-0114
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.61
2
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antoaneta Serguieva1235.05
John Hunter290.61