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Our Objectives
  • To foster advanced research in quantitative risk management for national and global infrastructure developments.
  • To  promote the best infrastructure risk management practices among scholars and practitioners.
  • To establish effective and innovative risk management solutions for:
    • Energy and Renewable Energy systems
    • Water and Wastewater-treatment systems
    • Aerial, terrestrial and maritime transportation systems
  • To promote interest among US K-12 students in Risk Management applied to infrastructure developments. 

CURRENT RESEARCH

ENERGY
  • Project E1: Monte Carlo techniques for valuing Swing options (Chiara/Dong)
  • Project E2: Risk hedging supply risk in non-renewable energy power generators (Chiara/Dong)
  • Project E3: Power project finance: risk mitigation through real options (Nicola Chiara)
  • Project E4 Augmenting economical profitability of Renewable Energy power generators (Chiara/Tang)
  • Project E5 Innovative Risk management techniques in Carbon Finance (Amy Tang)
  • Project E6 New methods for mitigating Energy Risk (Feng Dong)
  • Project E7 Game theory and Real Options in PPP energy power generators (Cengiz Ucbenli)

TRANSPORTATION
  • Project T1: Risk management in transportation asset securitization (Chiara/Dong)
  • Project T2: Risk mitigation in Performance-Link Revenue Bonds (Dong/Chiara)
  • Project T3: Revenue Risk Mitigation in PPP transportation projects (Nakhon Kokkaew)
  • Project T4: Innovative Stochastic models for Monte Carlo simulation of BOT toll road's construction phase (Nakhon Kokkaew)
  • Project T5: Copula applications for Risk Management in BOT toll bridge projects (Wei Wang)
  • Project T6: Advanced stochastic modeling of deterioration curves in Bridge systems (Wei Wang)
  • Project T7: Variance models: innovative stochastic processes for modeling epistemic uncertainty in Greenfield projects (Nicola Chiara)

PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP
  • Project P1: Credit Risk assessment in Project Finance (Chiara/Dong)
  • Project P2: Optimal Capital Structuring under uncertainty (Chiara/Dong)
  • Project P3: Revenue Risk analysis and mitigation (Nicola Chiara)
  • Project P4: Multiple-exercise Bermudan options for risk hedging (Nicola Chiara)
  • Project P5: Dynamic risk hedging contracts in PPP investments (Nicola Chiara)
  • Project P6: Advanced risk management with "Risk Flexibility Theory": setting the conceptual framework (Nicola Chiara)
  • Project P7: Facilitating PPP negotiation closings  using Risk Flexibility Theory (Nicola Chiara)
  • Project P8: New frontiers in risk management using real options (Nicola Chiara)
  • Project P9: Quantitative Risk Management in PPP (Roberta Pellegrino)

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