July 2009
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
19h 50m
English
The price of risk is key to assessing the cost of funding to a firm. We can use the financial balance sheet introduced in Chapter 1 to illustrate this concept, as shown in Figure 7.1.
Note that both the cost of equity and the cost of debt are a function not only of the risk characteristics of the business being analyzed—its credit standing and relative risk measure—but also of the market prices that we attach to default risk (default spread) and the equity risk (equity risk premium). The latter applies across all investments, whereas the ...
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