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Separate cash flow valuation – applications to investment decisions and tax design

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  • Magne Emhjellen
  • Petter Osmundsen

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Oil project assessment using separate cash flow valuation (Jacoby and Laughton, 1992; Laughton and Jacoby, 1993; Emhjellen and Alaouze, 2002), presumes that the present value of the cost cash flow of oil projects can be calculated using a risk free rate. This paper examines whether this practise, at least to a first approximation, is reasonable. More specifically, the paper examines whether labour wage hours costs and steel prices – as cost factors in the investment cost stream – are systematic risk factors (i.e., have a beta different from zero). The paper also investigates whether oil price as a factor in the revenue stream is a systematic revenue factor. Separate cash flow evaluation has been discussed in relation to petroleum taxation. A petroleum tax commission in Norway stated that tax reductions due to depreciation should separately be discounted by a risk free rate. We discuss the role of partial cash flow discounting in tax design.

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  • Magne Emhjellen & Petter Osmundsen, 2011. "Separate cash flow valuation – applications to investment decisions and tax design," International Journal of Global Energy Issues, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 35(1), pages 43-63.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijgeni:v:35:y:2011:i:1:p:43-63
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    1. Petter Osmundsen, Magne Emhjellen, Thore Johnsen, Alexander Kemp and Christian Riis, 2015. "Petroleum Taxation Contingent on Counter-Factual Investment Behaviour," The Energy Journal, International Association for Energy Economics, vol. 0(Adelman S).
    2. Osmundsen, Petter & Emhjellen, Magne & Johnsen, Thore & Kemp, Alexander & Riis, Christian, 2014. "Petroleum taxation and investment behaviour," UiS Working Papers in Economics and Finance 2014/17, University of Stavanger.

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