We argue that the empirical evidence against the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) based on stock returns does not … returns on stocks need not satisfy the CAPM even when expected returns of projects do. We provide empirical support for our … arguments by developing a method for estimating firms' project CAPM-betas and project returns. Our findings justify the …

We argue that the CAPM may be a reasonable model for estimating the cost of capital for projects in spite of increasing … empirical evidence in the literature against the CAPM based on stock returns. As McDonald and Siegel (1985) and Berk, Green and … new projects. In that case, the expected return on stocks need not satisfy the CAPM even when project expected returns do …

We argue that the empirical evidence against the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) based on stock returns does not … returns on stocks need not satisfy the CAPM even when expected returns of projects do. We provide empirical support for our … arguments by developing a method for estimating firms' project CAPM-betas and project returns. Our findings justify the …