Contents

About the Authors

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART ONE

   Cost of Capital Basics

CHAPTER 1

   Defining Cost of Capital

CHAPTER 2

   Introduction to Cost of Capital Applications: Valuation, Project Selection, and Ratemaking

CHAPTER 3

   Net Cash Flow: The Preferred Measure of Economic Income

APPENDIX 3A

   Alternative Measures of Economic Income

CHAPTER 4

   Discounting versus Capitalizing

APPENDIX 4A

   Equivalency of Capitalizing Residual Income

CHAPTER 5

   Discounting—Beyond the Basics

CHAPTER 6

   Relationship between Risk and the Cost of Capital

PART TWO

   Estimating the Cost of Equity Capital

CHAPTER 7

   Risk-free Rate

CHAPTER 8

   Equity Risk Premium

APPENDIX 8A

   Deriving ERP Estimates

APPENDIX 8B

   Other Sources of ERP Estimates

CHAPTER 9

   Build-up Method

CHAPTER 10

   Capital Asset Pricing Model

CHAPTER 11

   Beta: Differing Definitions and Estimates

APPENDIX 11A

   Examples of Computing OLS Beta, Sum Beta, and Full-information Beta Estimates

APPENDIX 11B

   Estimating Beta: Interpreting Regression Statistics

CHAPTER 12

   Unlevering and Levering Equity Betas

CHAPTER 13

   Criticism of CAPM and Beta versus Other Risk Measures

APPENDIX 13A

   Example of Computing Downside Beta Estimates

CHAPTER 14

   Size Effect

CHAPTER 15

   Criticisms of the Size Effect

APPENDIX 15A

   Other Data Issues Regarding the Size Effect

CHAPTER 16

   Company-specific Risk

CHAPTER 17

   Distressed Businesses

APPENDIX 17A

   Cost of Capital and the Valuation of Worthless Stock ...

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