This paper show result of empirical analysis application of cost of capital for capital structuring in Croatian firms. Intensity of this applications is highly unrespectable because Croatian firms usually calculated cost of capital in their capital budgeting process. Analysis also show low...

Standard factor pricing models do not capture well the common time-series or cross-sectional variation in average returns of financial stocks. We propose a five-factor asset pricing model that complements the standard Fama and French (1993) three-factor model with a financial sector ROE factor...

Using US firms with over $5b market cap, this paper tests the impact of levered beta on the firm’s market value and optimal capital structure. Using the synthetic rating method in a recursive model, the paper shows the current and optimal weighted average cost of capital sensitivities as the...