Principles of Corporate Finance
13th Edition
ISBN: 9781260465099
Author: BREALEY, Richard
Publisher: MCGRAW-HILL HIGHER EDUCATION
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Chapter 9, Problem 22PS
Certainty equivalents A project has the following
The estimated project beta is 1.5. The market return rm is 16%, and the risk-free rate rf is 7%.
- a. Estimate the
opportunity cost of capital and the project’s PV (using the same rate to discount each cash flow). - b. What are the certainty-equivalent cash, flows in each year?
- c. What is the ratio of the certainty-equivalent cash flow to the expected cash flow in each year?
- d. Explain why this ratio declines.
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