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Chapter 9, Problem 12PS
Company cost of capital Nero Violins has the following capital structure:
- a. What is the firm’s asset beta? (Hint: What is the beta of a portfolio of all the firm’s securities?)
- b. Assume that the
CAPM is correct. What discount rate should Nero set for investments that expand the scale of its operations without changing its asset beta? Assume a risk-free interest rate of 5% and a market risk premium of 6%. Ignore taxes.
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