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Type Master's Thesis
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Estimating Betas: What works?
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Sina von Flüe
Supervisors
  • Per Nils Anders Östberg
Language
  • English
Institution University of Zurich
Faculty Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics
Date 2018
Abstract Text Calculating the cost of capital is important for companies worldwide. In practice, these capital costs are calculated using the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) as well as a raw beta estimator is used often. Unfortunately, that it has been shown that the beta is not stable over time. Therefore, the future beta should be adjusted or calculated in another way.
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