A robust goal programming model for transfer pricing risk hedging: Preliminary results

In the following paper it is proposed a model for controlling the Transfer Pricing risk of a Multinational Firm operating in different countries and that has a well-defined value chain spread across its different controlled companies. These types of agreements controlling such transactions generally take into account different type of objectives. Another problem arises by the process itself that may appear to be fairly deterministic; such simplistic assumption decays if the focus is placed on the general length of such agreements that tend to occupy a medium length planning horizon. Because of that, a Robust Multicriteria Transfer Pricing risk model is built, using the multiobjective capabilities of the Goal Programming approach and the uncertainty modeling features provided by the concept of Robust Optimization. The final result is a model in order to handle the possible worst-case scenarios in an environment of high uncertainty and mid to long-term planning.