... Risk-Adjusted CostofCapital Start by calculating a divisional costofcapital Estimate the risk of the project using the techniques in Chapter 11 Use judgment to scale up or down the costofcapital ... costofcapital Most firms incorporate tax effects in the costofcapital Therefore, focus on after-tax costs Only costof debt is affected 9-5 Should we focus on historical (embedded) costs ... or new (marginal) costs? The costofcapital is used primarily to make decisions which involve raising and investing new capital So, we should focus on marginal costs 9-6 Costof Debt Method...
... discuss the effects of disclosure regulation on the costofcapitalof firms Based on our framework, increasing the quality of mandated disclosures should in general move the costofcapital closer ... price and on the costofcapitalof reducing the assessment of firmvariance The firm-specific variance reduction effect is an important factor in the costofcapital analysis of Easley and O’Hara ... results is the different definition ofcostofcapital In particular, Hughes et al define costofcapital as the difference between beginning -of- period price and end -of- period expected cash flows,...
... 2006, all would have been lost for her in the first two years of its existence 30 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM That is, of course, because of what happened to house prices From 2000 to 2006 they rose ... the wreckage of the 2008 crisis, 10 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM with the Great Moderation dead, policy makers, business leaders, and investors need to come to understand the insights of Hyman Minsky ... mortgage despite drop in value of house House Foreclosed upon 32 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM Minsky’s Insights on Debt and Risk There are two lessons from the saga of Hal and Hanna If things go...
... commercial loan of ce 88 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM Over the mid-1980s, thrifts became major buyers of junk bonds They did so with little serious analysis of the underlying companies that offered up ... were offered a new product that would allow them to become bankers to mid-sized companies • 83 • 84 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM without creating large loan of ces Both innovations, on the face of ... 30% 47% 90% Quarter: *Average Expectation: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Survey of Professional Economists 68 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM 2007 Thus consensus forecasters declared the United...
... emperor’s palace in Tokyo was equal to the value 96 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM of all the land in the state of California! The shares of Japanese car makers reached values that suggested these ... first five minutes of our round table that the obvious issue we had to grapple with was the potential for a bursting of the large technology share price bubble 110 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM Figure ... 114 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM no mistake about it, in the spring of 2000 it was tight money, not troubling math, that burst the fantastic technology share price bubble In the early months of 2000,...
... bought hundreds of billions of euros’ worth of Continental sovereign bonds Other emerging 136 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM nations, including Russia, India, and Brazil, were giant buyers of developed ... combined to determine a home buyer’s costofcapital Accordingly, if the Fed could drive mortgage rates lower, it could lower home buyers’ sense of the capitalcost to buy a home In so doing it ... 140 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM consumer spending and therefore spelled outright recession for the U.S economy The full implications of the hard fall for housing played out in the collapse of the existing...
... 156 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM By mid-2007, the CDO market had the implausibly high value of $55 trillion It amounted to a mountain of wagers about corporate bonds that dwarfed the value of the underlying ... and all, free market capitalism is vastly superior to governmentdirected investment strategies 166 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM The rest of this chapter will deal with the views of classical and mainstream ... insolvency was consistent with Minsky’s sense of the costof capitalism As this book makes clear, periodic financial market mayhem comes with the territory in a capitalist system It is government’s role...
... Street, over time, dulls the applicability of a given set of regulations 188 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM Minsky Modified Monetary Policy Does Minsky’s diagnosis of capitalist economies suggest a rule for ... THE COSTOF CAPITALISM because the data inputted into the risk management models covered a period of euphoria Had the models been fitted more appropriately to historic periods of stress, capital ... the price of progress For Minsky, government activism, to thwart the deflationary effects of Minsky and Monetary Policy • 183 banking crises, is the costof capitalism The last 50 years of global...
... inescapable part of capitalism But the colossal scope of the 2008 global crisis, and the severe tangible costs that the world is now paying, came into being in large part because of misguided notions ... rise to the long string of successes that were celebrated throughout the 1990s and into the middle years of the first decade of the new millennium Signing off on a world of slow growth, with bloated ... beyond the current economic crisis • 205 • 206 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM The Dynamic Restated Risk appetites grow as good times endure Borrowing costs for uncertain endeavors retreat, asset markets...
... 2006, all would have been lost for her in the first two years of its existence 30 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM That is, of course, because of what happened to house prices From 2000 to 2006 they rose ... the wreckage of the 2008 crisis, 10 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM with the Great Moderation dead, policy makers, business leaders, and investors need to come to understand the insights of Hyman Minsky ... mortgage despite drop in value of house House Foreclosed upon 32 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM Minsky’s Insights on Debt and Risk There are two lessons from the saga of Hal and Hanna If things go...
... retrenchment, 42 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM Ta b l e Minsky’s Three Stages of Capitalist Finance Hedge Finance: • Early cycle, with vivid memories of recession in place • Conservative estimates of cash inflows ... with a basic idea of what the future will bring And second, there has never been a cycle that was free of false confidences and flights of fancy from financiers, 40 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM lenders, ... circumstances, a modest slowing is very disappointing to owners of stock Moreover, 50 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM because of the leveraged nature of their wagers, they lose substantial wealth and become...
... commercial loan of ce 88 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM Over the mid-1980s, thrifts became major buyers of junk bonds They did so with little serious analysis of the underlying companies that offered up ... were offered a new product that would allow them to become bankers to mid-sized companies • 83 • 84 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM without creating large loan of ces Both innovations, on the face of ... 30% 47% 90% Quarter: *Average Expectation: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Survey of Professional Economists 68 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM 2007 Thus consensus forecasters declared the United...
... emperor’s palace in Tokyo was equal to the value 96 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM of all the land in the state of California! The shares of Japanese car makers reached values that suggested these ... first five minutes of our round table that the obvious issue we had to grapple with was the potential for a bursting of the large technology share price bubble 110 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM Figure ... 114 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM no mistake about it, in the spring of 2000 it was tight money, not troubling math, that burst the fantastic technology share price bubble In the early months of 2000,...
... bought hundreds of billions of euros’ worth of Continental sovereign bonds Other emerging 136 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM nations, including Russia, India, and Brazil, were giant buyers of developed ... combined to determine a home buyer’s costofcapital Accordingly, if the Fed could drive mortgage rates lower, it could lower home buyers’ sense of the capitalcost to buy a home In so doing it ... 140 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM consumer spending and therefore spelled outright recession for the U.S economy The full implications of the hard fall for housing played out in the collapse of the existing...
... 156 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM By mid-2007, the CDO market had the implausibly high value of $55 trillion It amounted to a mountain of wagers about corporate bonds that dwarfed the value of the underlying ... and all, free market capitalism is vastly superior to governmentdirected investment strategies 166 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM The rest of this chapter will deal with the views of classical and mainstream ... insolvency was consistent with Minsky’s sense of the costof capitalism As this book makes clear, periodic financial market mayhem comes with the territory in a capitalist system It is government’s role...
... inescapable part of capitalism But the colossal scope of the 2008 global crisis, and the severe tangible costs that the world is now paying, came into being in large part because of misguided notions ... rise to the long string of successes that were celebrated throughout the 1990s and into the middle years of the first decade of the new millennium Signing off on a world of slow growth, with bloated ... beyond the current economic crisis • 205 • 206 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM The Dynamic Restated Risk appetites grow as good times endure Borrowing costs for uncertain endeavors retreat, asset markets...
... retrenchment, 42 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM Ta b l e Minsky’s Three Stages of Capitalist Finance Hedge Finance: • Early cycle, with vivid memories of recession in place • Conservative estimates of cash inflows ... with a basic idea of what the future will bring And second, there has never been a cycle that was free of false confidences and flights of fancy from financiers, 40 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM lenders, ... circumstances, a modest slowing is very disappointing to owners of stock Moreover, 50 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM because of the leveraged nature of their wagers, they lose substantial wealth and become...
... commercial loan of ce 88 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM Over the mid-1980s, thrifts became major buyers of junk bonds They did so with little serious analysis of the underlying companies that offered up ... were offered a new product that would allow them to become bankers to mid-sized companies • 83 • 84 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM without creating large loan of ces Both innovations, on the face of ... 30% 47% 90% Quarter: *Average Expectation: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Survey of Professional Economists 68 • THE COSTOF CAPITALISM 2007 Thus consensus forecasters declared the United...