This paper contains the statistics of the Equity Premium or Market Risk Premium (MRP) used in 2011 for 56 countries. We got answers for 85 countries, but we only report the results for 56 countries with more than 6 answers. Most previous surveys have been interested in the Expected MRP, but this...

This paper addresses 10 corporate finance topics that are not well treated (or not treated at all) in many Corporate Finance Books. The topics are: 1. Where does the WACC equation come from? 2. The WACC is not a cost. 3. What is the WACC equation when the value of the debt is not equal to its...

English Abstract: During the last 10 years (2001-2011), the average return of the mutual funds in Spain (1.3%) was smaller than the average inflation. Nevertheless, on December 31, 2011, 4.9 million investors had 128 billion euros in the 2,471 existing mutual funds. Only 1 of the 368 mutual...

English Abstract: During the last 10 years, the average return of the pension funds in Spain was lower than the inflation and than the return of Government Bonds. Only 2 funds (out of 532) had a return higher than the return of Government Bonds. Nevertheless, on December 31, 2011, 5.1 million...

Mehra and Prescott (1985) argued that, according to sensible asset pricing models, stocks should provide at most a 0.35% premium over bills. However, companies use higher equity premia (average around 6%) for evaluating their investment projects, professors use in class and in their textbooks...

On April 16, 2012 the Argentine Federal Government decreed the intervention of YPF and expropriated of 51% of the YPF shares owned by Repsol. Repsol had a 57.4% stake. A tribunal will determine the compensation Repsol will receive for its YPF shares. You are required to help the tribunal. What...

Company valuation using discounted cash flows is based on the valuation of the Government bonds: it consists of applying the procedure used to value the Government bonds to the debt and shares of a company. This is easy to understand (sections 1, 2 and 3). But company valuation is complicated by...

The English version of this paper can be found at 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2176728' http://ssrn.com/abstract=2176728Spanish Abstract: El 16 de abril de 2012, el Gobierno Argentino expropio a Repsol un 51% de las acciones de YPF que eran de su propiedad. Repsol tenía el 57,4% de las acciones de...

This paper contains the statistics of the Equity Premium or Market Risk Premium (MRP) used in 2012 for 82 countries. We got answers for 93 countries, but we only report the results for 82 countries with more than 5 answers.Most previous surveys have been interested in the Expected MRP, but this...

This paper contains a collection and classification of 119 errors seen in company valuations performed by financial analysts, investment banks and financial consultants. The author had access to most of the valuations referred to in this paper in his capacity as a consultant in company...