Fisher's Rate and Aggregate Capital Needs in Investment Decisions

Fisher’s rate means the interest rate where the net present values of two mutually exclusive projects become equal. The paper examines the background and the circumstances of conformation of Fisher’s rate in connection with the aggregate capital needs. Aggregate capital needs is a new conception an...

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Main Author: Mária Illés
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Miskolc 2014-07-01
Series:Theory, Methodology, Practice
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Online Access:https://ojs.uni-miskolc.hu/index.php/tmp/article/view/1524
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description Fisher’s rate means the interest rate where the net present values of two mutually exclusive projects become equal. The paper examines the background and the circumstances of conformation of Fisher’s rate in connection with the aggregate capital needs. Aggregate capital needs is a new conception and gives a new viewpoint to investment project decisions. The paper defines the special content of aggregate capital needs, and compiles an index number for it. The analysis widens knowledge regarding the content of net present value, and highlights the importance of taking the aggregate capital needs into consideration. Fisher’s rate only means useful information in practice if the ranking is made based on the net present value. However, this principle of ranking is in contradiction with the concept of long-term profit maximization. The transformed net present value, which is free of distorting effects (and assuming equal required rates of return,) gives the same ranking list as the internal rate of return. Therefore, Fisher’s rate has no importance in business decisions.
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Fisher's Rate and Aggregate Capital Needs in Investment Decisions
Theory, Methodology, Practice
aggregate capital needs
investment project decisions
net present value
internal rate of return
ranking
Fisher’s rate
title Fisher's Rate and Aggregate Capital Needs in Investment Decisions
title_full Fisher's Rate and Aggregate Capital Needs in Investment Decisions
title_fullStr Fisher's Rate and Aggregate Capital Needs in Investment Decisions
title_full_unstemmed Fisher's Rate and Aggregate Capital Needs in Investment Decisions
title_short Fisher's Rate and Aggregate Capital Needs in Investment Decisions
title_sort fisher s rate and aggregate capital needs in investment decisions
topic aggregate capital needs
investment project decisions
net present value
internal rate of return
ranking
Fisher’s rate
url https://ojs.uni-miskolc.hu/index.php/tmp/article/view/1524
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