1.
Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure
Michael C. Jensen, A THEORY OF THE FIRM: GOVERNANCE, RESIDUAL CLAIMS AND ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS, Harvard University Press, December 2000, Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 3, No. 4, 1976
Number of pages: 78
Posted: 19 Jul 1998
Last Revised: 18 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Business School and Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased)
Downloads
137,426
2.
Company Valuation Methods
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 22 Jul 2001
Last Revised: 26 May 2019
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School
Downloads
64,054
3.
Agency Cost of Free Cash Flow, Corporate Finance, and Takeovers
American Economic Review, Vol. 76, No. 2, May 1986
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 25 Mar 1999
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Business School
Downloads
47,323
4.
Valuing Companies by Cash Flow Discounting: Ten Methods and Nine Theories
EFMA 2002 London Meetings
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 14 May 2004
Last Revised: 28 May 2019
Accepted Paper Series
IESE Business School
Downloads
37,679
5.
Value Based Management: Economic Value Added or Cash Value Added?
FWC AB Study No. 1997:3
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 05 Apr 1999
Working Paper Series
Weissenrieder & Co AB
Downloads
34,828
6.
Métodos de valoración de empresas (Company Valuation Methods)
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 15 Sep 2008
Last Revised: 26 Oct 2020
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School
Downloads
32,156
7.
Índice Libro Valoración de Empresas y Sensatez (Company Valuation and Common Sense)
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 28 Jan 2013
Last Revised: 14 Oct 2019
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School
Downloads
27,635
8.
Market Risk Premium Used in 82 Countries in 2012: A Survey with 7,192 Answers
IESE Business School Working Paper No. WP-1059-E
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 16 Jun 2012
Last Revised: 12 Oct 2017
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School, IESE Business School and IESE
Downloads
25,783
9.
Optimal Capital Allocation Using RAROC and EVA
Journal of Financial Intermediation, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 11 Sep 1998
Accepted Paper Series
Vienna University of Economics and Business and Vienna University of Economics and Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
Optimal Capital Allocation Using RAROC and EVA
Journal of Financial Intermediation, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 11 Sep 1998
Downloads
24,097
Downloads
24,097
10.
WACC: Definition, Misconceptions and Errors
Number of pages: 8
Posted: 05 Jun 2010
Last Revised: 26 May 2019
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School
Downloads
23,992
11.
Country Risk: Determinants, Measures and Implications - The 2015 Edition
Number of pages: 97
Posted: 15 Jul 2015
Last Revised: 01 Aug 2015
Working Paper Series
New York University - Stern School of Business
Downloads
23,239
12.
Three Residual Income Valuation Methods and Discounted Cash Flow Valuation
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 16 Jan 2002
Last Revised: 02 Jun 2019
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School
Downloads
19,670
13.
The Worldwide Equity Premium: A Smaller Puzzle
Chapter 11 of R Mehra (Ed), Handbook of the Equity Risk Premium. Elsevier, 2008, pages 467–514, AFA 2008 New Orleans Meetings Paper; EFA 2006 Zurich Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 17 Mar 2006
Last Revised: 20 Mar 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting and London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting
Downloads
19,019
14.
Valoración de empresas por descuento de flujos: 10 métodos y 7 teorías (Valuing Companies by Cash Flow Discounting: 10 Methods and 7 Theories)
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 12 Sep 2008
Last Revised: 13 Oct 2019
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School
Downloads
18,523
15.
Ten Badly Explained Topics in Most Corporate Finance Books
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 28 Apr 2012
Last Revised: 12 Oct 2017
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School
There are 2 versions of this paper
Ten Badly Explained Topics in Most Corporate Finance Books
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 28 Apr 2012
Last Revised: 12 Oct 2017
Downloads
18,214
Ten Badly Explained Topics in Most Corporate Finance Books
IESE Business School Working Paper No. 954
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 07 Jun 2012
Downloads
1,051
Downloads
18,214
16.
Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Course Overview
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 23 Apr 1998
Working Paper Series
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit
Downloads
18,174
17.
Valuation Using Multiples: Dispersion. Useful to compare and to negotiate
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 17 Jul 2001
Last Revised: 26 May 2019
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School
Downloads
18,090
18.
Market Risk Premium Used in 88 Countries in 2014: A Survey with 8,228 Answers
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 15 Jun 2014
Last Revised: 20 Jun 2014
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School, University of Navarra, IESE Business School and University of Navarra - University of Navarra, Students
Downloads
17,645
19.
Return on Capital (ROC), Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) and Return on Equity (ROE): Measurement and Implications
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 26 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 29 May 2008
Working Paper Series
New York University - Stern School of Business
Downloads
17,265
20.
Valuation of Brands and Intellectual Capital
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 29 May 2001
Last Revised: 26 May 2019
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School
Downloads
16,918
21.
Valoración de Empresas por Descuento de Flujos: lo fundamental y las Complicaciones Innecesarias (Valuing Companies by Cash Flow Discounting: Fundamental Ideas and Unnecessary Complications)
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 23 Jun 2012
Last Revised: 13 Oct 2019
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School
Downloads
16,608
22.
Cash Flow Is a Fact: Net Income Is Just an Opinion
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 25 Sep 2002
Last Revised: 02 Jun 2019
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School
Downloads
16,328
23.
170 Errores en Valoraciones de Empresas (170 Errors in Company Valuations)
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 14 Feb 2007
Last Revised: 11 May 2017
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School
Downloads
16,157
24.
EVA and Cash Value Added Do NOT Measure Shareholder Value Creation
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 05 Jun 2001
Last Revised: 02 Jun 2019
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School
Downloads
15,431
25.
The Theory and Practice of Corporate Finance: Evidence from the Field
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 12 Apr 2000
Working Paper Series
Duke University and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
Downloads
15,230
26.
How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?
Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 16-33, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 477/2016
Number of pages: 95
Posted: 29 Jun 2016
Last Revised: 10 May 2017
Working Paper Series
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads
15,214
27.
Market Risk Premium and Risk-Free Rate Used for 69 Countries in 2019: A Survey
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 18 Apr 2019
Last Revised: 26 May 2019
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School, University of Navarra, IESE Business School and University of Navarra - University of Navarra, Students
Downloads
14,969
28.
Equity Risk Premiums (ERP): Determinants, Estimation and Implications – The 2019 Edition
NYU Stern School of Business
Number of pages: 135
Posted: 29 May 2019
Working Paper Series
New York University - Stern School of Business
Downloads
14,851
29.
WACC: definición, interpretaciones equivocadas y errores (WACC: Definition and Errors)
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 03 Jul 2010
Last Revised: 13 Oct 2019
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School
Downloads
14,495
30.
CAPM: An Absurd Model
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 07 Oct 2014
Last Revised: 26 May 2019
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School
Downloads
14,381
31.
Optimal Capital Structure: Problems with the Harvard and Damodaran Approaches
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 22 May 2001
Last Revised: 02 Jun 2019
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School
Downloads
14,331
32.
119 Common Errors in Company Valuations
IESE Business School Working Paper No. 714
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 30 Oct 2007
Last Revised: 26 May 2019
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School and University of Navarra - IESE Business School
Downloads
13,989
33.
Risk Analysis in Investment Appraisal
Project Appraisal Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1, March 1994
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 24 Apr 2001
Last Revised: 27 Mar 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Queen's University - John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy
Downloads
13,684
34.
Survey: Market Risk Premium and Risk-Free Rate used for 81 countries in 2020
IESE Business School Working Paper No. WP-1244-E
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 25 Mar 2020
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School, Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Economicos (IESE) and Independent
Downloads
13,649
35.
The Equity Premium in 150 Textbooks
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 14 Sep 2009
Last Revised: 26 May 2019
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School
Downloads
13,611
36.
Market Risk Premium and Risk-Free Rate used for 59 Countries in 2018: A Survey
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 23 Apr 2018
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School, University of Navarra, IESE Business School and University of Navarra - University of Navarra, Students
Downloads
13,558
37.
Equity Risk Premiums (ERP): Determinants, Estimation and Implications - The 2010 Edition
Number of pages: 89
Posted: 21 Feb 2010
Last Revised: 23 Aug 2010
Working Paper Series
New York University - Stern School of Business
Downloads
12,958
38.
Prima de Riesgo del Mercado: Histórica, Esperada, Exigida e Implícita (Market Risk Premium: Historical, Expected, Required and Implied)
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 27 Apr 2006
Last Revised: 15 Oct 2019
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - London School of Economics
Downloads
12,870
39.
205 Preguntas y Respuestas sobre Finanzas (205 Questions on Finance) (Spanish)
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 29 May 2010
Last Revised: 09 Jan 2018
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School
Downloads
12,670
40.
Valoracion de Marcas e Intangibles (Brand Valuation)
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 27 Mar 2007
Last Revised: 13 Oct 2019
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School
Downloads
12,304
41.
What is the Riskfree Rate? A Search for the Basic Building Block
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 18 Dec 2008
Last Revised: 01 Jul 2009
Working Paper Series
New York University - Stern School of Business
Downloads
12,197
42.
Valuing Companies by Cash Flow Discounting: Fundamental Relationships and Unnecessary Complications
IESE Business School Working Paper No. WP-1062-E
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 27 Jul 2012
Last Revised: 26 May 2019
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School
Downloads
12,009
43.
Valuing Real Options: Frequently Made Errors
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 20 Jul 2001
Last Revised: 26 May 2019
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School
Downloads
11,638
44.
Shareholder Value Creation: A Definition
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 30 May 2001
Last Revised: 02 Jun 2019
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School
Downloads
11,536
45.
Are Calculated Betas Good for Anything?
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 20 Feb 2004
Last Revised: 26 May 2019
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School
Downloads
11,480
46.
Market Risk Premium and Risk Free Rate Used for 51 Countries in 2013: A Survey with 6,237 Answers
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 15 Jul 2006
Last Revised: 27 Jun 2013
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School, IESE Business School and University of Navarra, IESE Business School
Downloads
11,435
47.
Performance Pay and Top Management Incentives
Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 08 Mar 2001
Accepted Paper Series
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Harvard Business School
Downloads
11,133
48.
Compensation and Incentives: Practice vs. Theory
Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998; Journal of Finance, Vol. 63, No. 3, pp. 593-616, July 1998
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 24 Sep 1998
Accepted Paper Series
HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads
10,954
49.
Equity Risk Premiums (ERP): Determinants, Estimation and Implications – The 2012 Edition
Number of pages: 107
Posted: 22 Mar 2012
Last Revised: 20 Apr 2012
Working Paper Series
New York University - Stern School of Business
Downloads
10,935
50.
Discounted Cash Flow Valuation Methods: Examples of Perpetuities, Constant Growth and General Case
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 14 Jun 2005
Last Revised: 26 May 2019
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School
Downloads
10,576
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