Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
11th Edition
ISBN: 9780077861704
Author: Stephen A. Ross Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics Professor, Randolph W Westerfield Robert R. Dockson Deans Chair in Bus. Admin., Bradford D Jordan Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 16, Problem 2CRCT
Summary Introduction
To discuss: Whether the given information follows that raising the debt increases the total risk of the company, thereby reducing the firm’s value.
Introduction:
M&M proposition I is a proposition where the firm’s value is independent of the capital structure of the firm. M&M proposition II is a proposition where a company’s equity cost is a linear function that is positive with respect to the capital structure of the firm.
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