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The Risk Profile of Infrastructure Investments:
Challenging Conventional Wisdom

Christoph Rothballer and Christoph Kaserer
The Journal of Structured Finance Summer 2012, 18 (2) 95-109; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3905/jsf.2012.18.2.095
Christoph Rothballer
is a research assistant at the Department of Financial Management and Capital Markets at Technische Universität München in München, Germany. christoph.rothballer@wi.tum.de
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Christoph Kaserer
is a full professor at the Department of Financial Management and Capital Markets at Technische Universität München in München, Germany. christoph.kaserer@wi.tum.de
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Even though infrastructure investments have gained increasing investor attention over the past decade, the empirical evidence on their risk characteristics is still limited. To fill this gap, we analyze the risk properties of a cross-sectional sample of more than 1,400 publicly listed firms worldwide across all infrastructure sectors. We find that infrastructure stocks on average exhibit significantly lower market risk than MSCI World equities, confirming their portfolio diversification benefits. Yet, as there are large variations within the infrastructure asset class, the low risk hypothesis cannot be maintained for all sectors. In contrast to the widespread belief that total corporate risk is lower for infrastructure firms, we show that across all sectors they exhibit a similar volatility to non-infrastructure firms. Hence, infrastructure is characterized by significant exposure to idiosyncratic risks despite the lower competition in infrastructure industries. This peculiar risk profile can be partly explained by construction risks, operating leverage, the exposure to regulatory changes, and the lack of product diversification. This finding highlights the need for diversified infrastructure portfolios, advanced risk management capabilities, and efficient mechanisms for sharing risk between the private and public sectors.

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Christoph Rothballer, Christoph Kaserer
The Journal of Structured Finance Jul 2012, 18 (2) 95-109; DOI: 10.3905/jsf.2012.18.2.095

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The Risk Profile of Infrastructure Investments:
Challenging Conventional Wisdom
Christoph Rothballer, Christoph Kaserer
The Journal of Structured Finance Jul 2012, 18 (2) 95-109; DOI: 10.3905/jsf.2012.18.2.095
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