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JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
Volume 60, Issue 2-3, Pages 187-243Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-405X(01)00044-7
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capital structure; cost of capital; cast of equity; capital budgeting; discount rates; project valuation; survey
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We survey 392 CFOs about the cost of capital, capital budgeting, and capital structure. Large firms rely heavily on present value techniques and the capital asset pricing model, while small firms are relatively likely to use the payback criterion. A surprising number of firms use firm risk rather than project risk in evaluating new investments. Firms are concerned about financial flexibility and credit ratings when issuing debt, and earnings per share dilution and recent stock price appreciation when issuing equity. We find some support for the pecking-order and trade-off capital structure hypotheses but little evidence that executives are concerned about asset substitution, asymmetric information, transactions costs, free cash flows, or personal taxes. (C) 2001 Published by Elsevier Science S.A.
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