Discounting rules for risky assets

This paper develops a rule for calculating a discount rate to value risky projects. The rule assumes that the asset risk can be measured by a single index (e.g., beta), but makes no other assumptions about specific form of the asset pricing model. The rule works for all equilibrium theories of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Myers, Stewart C., Ruback, Richard S.
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Energy Lab 2005
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/18196