Corporate Finance
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Author: Jonathan Berk, Peter DeMarzo
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Chapter 19.4, Problem 2CC
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To discuss: The ways to estimate the unlevered cost of capital of the firm using the data from the comparable publicly traded firms.

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The risk associated with the firm and the cost of capital has to be estimated to value the investments of the firm. The one of the most important method to value the cost of capital is capital asset pricing model (CAPM).

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