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On Costs of Capital in Programming Approaches to Capital Budgeting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Louis H. Ederington  and
William R. Henry
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This paper is concerned with costs of capital in mathematical programming formulations of the problem of capital budgeting under capital rationing. It shows that there is a serious error in the method outlined by previous authors for converting the shadow prices from the solution of the dual into measures of the firm's marginal internal opportunity rates. In addition to demonstrating that the traditional approach leads to erroneous and nonsensical results, this paper presents a correct procedure for determining these rates.

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Research Article
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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 14 , Issue 5 , December 1979 , pp. 1049 - 1058
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1979

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