Malaysian firms cost of equity: systematic versus downside risk
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...
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my.um.eprints.109982014-12-17T01:44:31Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/10998/ Malaysian firms cost of equity: systematic versus downside risk Swee Sim, F. Kim Leng, G. HB Economic Theory 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. 2009-11 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.um.edu.my/10998/1/C5_Malaysian_firms_cost_of_equity_foong.pdf 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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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. |
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