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Aswath Damodaran (born 24 September 1957), [1] is a Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University (Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education). He is well known as the author of several widely used academic and practitioner texts on Valuation, Corporate Finance and Investment Management; as well as a provider of comprehensive data for valuation purposes.
Investors who buy large-cap equity stocks, which are inherently more risky than long-term government bonds, require a greater return, so the next element of the build-up method is the equity risk premium. In determining a company's value, the long-horizon equity risk premium is used because the Company's life is assumed to be infinite.
The risk premium is used extensively in finance in areas such as asset pricing, portfolio allocation and risk management. [2] Two fundamental aspects of finance, being equity and debt instruments, require the use and interpretation of associated risk premiums with the inputs for each explained below:
Not long ago, my colleague Bryan White and I had the good fortune to interview Mr. Aswath Damodaran. Damodaran is a professor of finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University ...
The NYU professor explains the historical origin of buybacks Continue reading...
Aswath Damodaran (ND). Discounted Cash Flow Valuation. New York University Stern School of Business; Aswath Damodaran (ND). Probabilistic Approaches: Scenario Analysis, Decision Trees and Simulations. New York University Stern School of Business; Frank Fabozzi, Sergio M. Focardi, Caroline Jonas (2017). Equity Valuation – Science, Art, or Craft?.
The equity premium puzzle addresses the difficulty in understanding and explaining this disparity. [1] This disparity is calculated using the equity risk premium: The equity risk premium is equal to the difference between equity returns and returns from government bonds. It is equal to around 5% to 8% in the United States. [2]
Real options valuation, also often termed real options analysis, [1] (ROV or ROA) applies option valuation techniques to capital budgeting decisions. [2] A real option itself, is the right—but not the obligation—to undertake certain business initiatives, such as deferring, abandoning, expanding, staging, or contracting a capital investment project. [3]