The recent interest in the valuation of the benefits from debt financing arises from the disagreement in the financial literature about the meaning of “value of tax shields.” Although it is accepted that the tax deductibility of interest increases the value of the firm, the correct valuation...

The interrelationships between cash flows, corresponding discount rates and values follow certain rules, knowing which one can quite easily and correctly find out value of given cash flow using the discounting-by-components framework, or to find the correct formulation of the discount rate for...

This paper investigates the effect of investment opportunities, audit quality and debt maturity on the interest paid by all-equity firms. Debt holders are likely to charge higher interest to price-protect themselves because of the under-investment and asset substitution problems. All-equity...

This paper examines the relation between information differences across investors (i.e., information asymmetry) and the cost of capital, and establishes that with perfect competition information asymmetry makes no difference. Instead, a firm's cost of capital is governed solely by the average...

When Capital Asset pricing Model (CAPM) is considered as valid asset pricing theory, Security Market Line (SML) is supposed to give ex-ante returns for the single period investment horizon. Since the required returns should be same as the cost of equity (discount rates) in efficient markets, SML...

Estas diapositivas son un material para el curso de Finanzas Corporativas . Tratan el concepto más impirtante de las finanzas: el costo de capital. Las diapositivas presentan tanto la formulación más sencilla como las más complejas.Son un material que apoya al texto...

We compare the accuracy of cost of equity estimates based on leading factor models to two simple alternatives: the asset mean and the market mean. The market mean proves to be a serious competitor to traditional implementations of factor models even if the underlying factor model is true....

We provide an extensive set of alternative models for the estimation of the real cost of equity in a sample of utilities firms in Brazil with monthly data from March 2006 to June 2011. The traditional CAPM is rejected and, together with the Fama-French factors, give a poor fit. Additional...

We provide evidence that firms fail to properly adjust for risk in their valuation of investment projects, and that this behavior leads to value-destroying investment decisions. If managers tend to use a single discount rate within firms, we expect conglomerates to underinvest in relatively safe...

We investigate the association between voluntary disclosure and the risk-related discount investors apply to price. First, we study the association between (endogenous) disclosure choice and the discount in price induced by changes in the underlying model parameters: this is akin to an empirical...