Investment and the Weighted Average Cost of Capital
This paper is a study of the impact of the cost of capital on corporate investment. Empirically, high leverage and high cost of debt reduce investment. According to standard theory such as Abel and Blanchard (1986) or Zhang (2005) high cost of equity has a negative effect on investment. When the CAPM, Fama and French (1993) or Carhart (1997) models are used to infer the cost of equity, it has a positive effect on investment. When factor-augmented vector autoregressive (favar) approach is used to allow for a much wider range of determinants, the anomalous result persists. However, when an implied cost of equity capital approach is used, the theoretically predicted negative sign is observed.
Investment and the Weighted Average Cost of CapitalThis paper is a study of the impact of the cost of capital on corporate investment. Empirically, high leverage and high cost of debt reduce investment. According to standard theory such as Abel and Blanchard (1986) or Zhang (2005) high cost of equity has a negative effect on investment. When the CAPM, Fama and French (1993) or Carhart (1997) models are used to infer the cost of equity, it has a positive effect on investment. When factor-augmented vector autoregressive (favar) approach is used to allow for a much wider range of determinants, the anomalous result persists. However, when an implied cost of equity capital approach is used, the theoretically predicted negative sign is observed.
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