The aim of this paper is to present the method for estimating the cost of capital of typical portfolios available on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The authors introduce the three factor Fama-French model and its two modifications. They also apply the bootstrap method to evaluate the variability of...

A firm’s cost of capital should be determined by its exposures in respect of systematic risk, indicated by beta means how changes in systematic risk affect firm cost of capital and its determinants like cost of equity, cost of debt ,debt and equity financing mix. The most difficult component...

The problem of determining the cost of equity is crucial to the development of organizations. It is an essential means of calculating value creation. The financial literature has proposed several models for estimating the cost of equity, such as the capital asset pricing model (CAPM). However,...