Session 8: Corporate Finance Reading 29: Capital Budgeting
LOS e: Discuss the procedure for determining the discount rate to be used in valuing a capital project and calculate a project’s required rate of return using the capital asset pricing model (CAPM).
If central bank actions caused the risk-free rate to increase, what is the most likely change to cost of debt and equity capital?
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One increase and one decrease. | |
An increase in the risk-free rate will cause the cost of equity to increase. It would also cause the cost of debt to increase. In either case, the nominal cost of capital is the risk-free rate plus the appropriate premium for risk. |