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Why Sit on All that Cash? Firms Uncertain on Cost of Capital

Harvard Business Review

With a record $2 trillion in cash and short-term liquid assets on hand, U.S. Only 46 percent use the perpetuity growth model, while 27 percent develop an explicit cash flow forecast for the entire life of a project. non-financial firms certainly seem poised to expand. What's holding them back?

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

Campbell’s work has also made liberal use of the analytic tools developed by Hansen. Back in the ‘60s, people developed the capital asset pricing model [CAPM] as a way to do that. And the theory that was available then was CAPM. One can distinguish between what we call time series models and cross-sectional models.

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