Risk, Return, and the Cost of Capital
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Welcome to "Risk, Return, and the Cost of Capital!" The module analyzes the trade-off between risk and return and its implications for the practical estimation of discount rates.
The main learning goals of this module are:
- Understand the trade-off between risk and return.
- Learn how we can reduce the risk of an asset via diversification.
- Appreciate the basics of modern portfolio theory.
- Get to know the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) to estimate expected returns.
- See how to obtain the Weighted Average Cost of Capital, the most relevant discount rate in project and firm valuation.