The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is theoretically incomplete in its demandside focus, risk-averse investors, and internally inconsistent homogeneous beliefs; is not conclusively supported empirically; and yet it legitimizes a notion that investors can earn higher returns by bearing...

Successful regional integration in global competitive networks depends more than ever before on regional capacities for technological absorption and diffusion. Regional development inequalities are the outcome of different levels of technological adjustment and innovativeness in the regional...

This paper contains a collection and classification of 110 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...

Abstract. The value creation is the major objective of companies' functioning. It aims at meeting the general interests of stakeholders. The shareholders are directly interested by value added as they can recover the investments made and obtain the expected profit. Managers and the other...

Este documento analiza 13 tipos de bonos estructurados y 2 tipos de participaciones preferentes. El objetivo es mostrar el funcionamiento de los mismos, y analizar la rentabilidad esperada para los inversores, para los emisores y para las instituciones mediadoras. Se muestra que este tipo de...

Este documento analiza: - 106 informes de analistas sobre Lehman publicados entre enero y septiembre de 2008, - publicaciones de la CNMV - la evolución de la cotización de Lehman - la evolución del rating de la deuda de Lehman. - la evolución del CDS (Credit Default Swap) de Lehman - la...

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...

In this article we use a real life case from an emerging country to illustrate the valuation with discounted cash flow methods, witch include complexities such as unpaid taxes, losses carried forward, foreign exchange debt, presumptive income and inflation adjustments to the Financial...

This article presents a formal derivation of general expressions for cost of equity (Ke) and weighted average cost of capital (WACC) in perpetuities with constant growth, which do not make any assumption on what the proper discount rate is to be applied to the firm's tax shield. The formulas are...