The use of capital budgeting and cost of capital estimation methods in Swedish-listed companies

Journal of Applied Business Research

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1451-1476

  Hartwig, Fredrik ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Capital budgeting method; Cost of equity; Project risk; Swedish listed companies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869114432     PISSN: 08927626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.19030/jabr.v28i6.7354     Document Type: Article

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