Swee Sim, F. and Kim Leng, G. (2009) Malaysian firms cost of equity: systematic versus downside risk. In: International Conference on Business and Management Research, 22-24 Nov 2009, Bali, Indonesia. (Submitted)
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Abstract
Of late, concerns are raised against the application of the classical one-factor CAPM in emerging markets. Adopting some of the emerging market models reviewed in Pereiro (2001), together with the two-factor CAPM models proposed in this study, we make comparison between systematic and downside risk measures to estimate the cost of equity of Malaysian firms over 2000-2007. Overall, our results are consistent with Estrada (2000, 2001)’s findings which support downside risk measures over standard risk measures. Based on standard model selection criteria we find that two-factor downside betas have the highest explanatory power on actual stock returns, compared to single-factor models that consider only either local or global risk factor. The cost of equity for Malaysian firms calculated based on the two-factor downside betas have an average value of 11.42%. The Adjusted Local CAPM (ALCAPM) gives an average cost of equity value of 10.34%. If Malaysian investors have used the ALCAPM, they would have underestimated the firm’s cost of equity by an average of 108 basis points.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | CAPM; Cost of equity; Downside risk; Firm |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Economics & Administration |
| Depositing User: | Mr. Mohd Samsul Ismail |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Dec 2014 01:44 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Dec 2014 01:44 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/10998 |
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