E. Porras

The Cost of Capital

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

As investors, managers, or in our various capacities, we learn from experience to deal with everyday financial problems and to respond rationally to the ever-changing economic environment. However, to optimize our decision-making, we need more than 'rules of thumb'. We need to understand our choices, and the reasons market players behave the way they do.
The cost of capital is a topic of particular interest in the current financial tumultuous times.
In this book Dr Porras provides a comprehensive overview of the subject, contextualizing the relationship between risk, return and the cost of capital by relating it to the needs of investors and borrowers, the historical evidence and theories of choice and behaviour. The content spans financial theory, its empirical tests and applications to real-world contemporary financial problems. The applied focus of this book provides answers to the questions most managers might have, in an entertaining style. It includes simple numerical examples and graphs to help understanding of the concepts. The relationship between risk, return and the cost of capital is contextualized by relating it to the needs of investors and borrowers, the historical evidence, and theories of choice and behavior.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-20183-5
• 2011
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9780230201835
• ISBN-10: 0230201830
• Artikelnr.: 29924013

Autorenporträt

EVA R. PORRAS was Academic Dean of the Central European University Business School in Budapest, Hungary, and previously Director of Master Programs in Finance at the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain. With over two decades of working in the video, consulting, and transportation industries, she combines education and practical background to provide an applied cross-industry and international edge to the subject of cost of capital.

Inhaltsangabe

A General Introduction to Risk, Return, and the Cost of Capital The Components of the Cost of Capital and Alternative Models Problems In Using the Models Appendix: The CAPM Caveats Country Risk Capital Structure Theories The Optimal Capital Structure

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A General Introduction to Risk, Return, and the Cost of Capital The Components of the Cost of Capital and Alternative Models Problems In Using the Models Appendix: The CAPM Caveats Country Risk Capital Structure Theories The Optimal Capital Structure