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It is widely held that better financial reporting makes investors more confident in their predictions of future cash flows and reduces their required risk premia. The logic is that more information leads necessarily to more certainty, and hence lower subjective estimates of firm "beta" or...
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We study an optimal investment/consumption problem in a model capturing market and credit risk dependencies. Stochastic …
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The Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) has been the cornerstone of the asset allocation for over 40 years. In the past …, such as the recent sub-prime crisis. The proposed Leveraged Portfolio Theory (LPT) removes the most fundamental axiom of … becomes an endogenous variable, resulting from the supply/demand equilibrium in credit markets. The resulting model leads to …
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We analyze a continuous-time stochastic control problem that arises in the study of several important issues in financial economics. An agent controls the drift and volatility of a diffusion output process by dynamically selecting one of an arbitrary (but finite) number of projects and the...
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How does uncertainty affect the costs of raising finance in the bond market and via bank loans? Empirically, this paper finds that heightened uncertainty is accompanied by an increase in corporate bond yields and a decrease in bank lending rates. This finding can be explained with a model that...
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We present the derivation of cost of capital under the assumption of risky tax shields discounted with the cost of levered equity. We show that the formulation is consistent and is derived from basic financial principles. This formulation is valid for finite cash flows and non growing...
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Especially with the evaluation of non-listed (medium-sized) companies, the following problems and significant restrictions pertaining to the applicability of the CAPM must be taken into account when determining cost of capital. 1. Homogeneity of expectations and planning consistency. Given the...
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