Arithmetic versus geometric mean estimators: Setting discount rates for capital budgeting

European Financial Management

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 157-167

  Cooper, Ian ^a  

^a LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arithmetic mean; Capital budgeting; Discount rates; G120; G310; Geometric mean

Indexed keywords

EID: 17744389436     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.1996.tb00036.x     Document Type: Article

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