Duff & Phelps discusses how the current economic environment has created problems with the traditional methods we employ for estimating discount rates for equity capital (expected return or required rate of return on equity capital).
Wed, Feb 4, 2009
Problems with Cost of Capital Estimation in the Current Environment - Update
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