
CHAPTER
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9
Risk-Adjusted Performance Targets,
Capital Allocation, and the
Budgeting Process
After considering risk control through VaR-based limits and risk-adjusted performance
measurement, we can now discuss the fi nal step of the capital allocation process. While
capital allocation has sometimes been addressed in more theoretical settings by a number
of important papers (Froot and Stein 1998; Perold 1999; Stoughton and Zechner 1999,
2000; Denault 2001), in practice it represents an organizational process that is deeply
intertwined with the strategy formation process. Just like corporate strategy, it can alter-
nate between periods of sharp ra ...