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Do We Need CAPM for Capital Budgeting?
Abstract
A key input to the capital budgeting process is the cost of capital. Financial managers most often use the CAPM to estimate the cost of capital for which they need to know the market risk premium. Textbooks advocate using the historical value for the US equity premium as the market risk premium. The CAPM as a model has been seriously challenged in the academic literature. In addition, recent research indicates that the true market risk premium might have been as low as half the historical US equity premium during the last two decades. If business finance courses have been teaching the use of the wrong model along with wrong inputs for 20 years, why has no one complained? We provide an answer to this puzzle.
Type
Article
Author(s)
Ravi Jagannathan, Iwan Meier
Date Published
2002
Citations
Jagannathan, Ravi, and Iwan Meier. 2002. Do We Need CAPM for Capital Budgeting?. 31