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Massood V. Samii. Mattar, Mahdi H. (Mahdi Haidar), 1975- Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 2009-12-10T19:07:10Z 2009-12-10T19:07:10Z 1998 1998 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/50062 42364074 Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1998. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-74). Project financing has been the main financing structure of public-private ventures in infrastructure projects. Investors face several risks when going into these projects. These risks are even higher when the project is located in a foreign country. This thesis examines the risk exposure of investors and more specifically of lenders when financing foreign infrastructure projects. Basically these risks can be divided into three main categories: financial risks; political risks; and project's performance risks. The first category includes risks that have to do with the financial aspect of the investment such as interest rate risk, currency transfer and inconvertibility risks, and mainly currency devaluation risk. Political risks are country specific risks that could result from political, legal or regulatory actions that are unfavorable for the project's interest. The third category of risks includes the project's specific risks. These could vary from construction delays or cost overrun, to quality of performance of the project, to market risk... The first step in risk management is to identify and quantify the exposure to each of these risks. This is relatively easy when dealing with financial risks, however much more difficult in the two other categories. Hedging financial risks is done by the appropriate use of financial derivatives coupled with internal hedging strategies. Political risk hedging is mainly achieved by either introducing "strong sleeping partners" or by buying insurance policies. Finally performance risks could be easily prevented by adopting appropriate contractual agreements. Based on the results of a survey conducted with the major US commercial banks, lenders account for most of these risks. And when involved in international infrastructure financing they do hedge part of their risk exposure using the same hedging techniques discussed previously. by Mahdi Mattar. S.M. 76 leaves eng Massachusetts Institute of Technology M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 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The first category includes risks that have to do with the financial aspect of the investment such as interest rate risk, currency transfer and inconvertibility risks, and mainly currency devaluation risk. Political risks are country specific risks that could result from political, legal or regulatory actions that are unfavorable for the project's interest. The third category of risks includes the project's specific risks. These could vary from construction delays or cost overrun, to quality of performance of the project, to market risk... The first step in risk management is to identify and quantify the exposure to each of these risks. This is relatively easy when dealing with financial risks, however much more difficult in the two other categories. Hedging financial risks is done by the appropriate use of financial derivatives coupled with internal hedging strategies. 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