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Session 2: Cost of Capital and Corporate Valuation

Learn about the cutting-edge methods and techniques for determining the cost of capital used in valuation of corporate enterprises.

Presentations

John Cochrane, Cost of Capital (PDF, 156 K)

Links of Interest

Mesirow Financial Consulting

Links to papers of John Cochrane

Speakers

David W. King
Mesirow Financial Consulting, LLC

 

CochraneJohn H. Cochrane
Professor of Finance
University of Chicago

John H. Chochrane is the Myron S. Scholes Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

His selected publications include: Asset Pricing (Princeton University Press, 2004). With Monika Piazzesi, "Bond Risk Premia" American Economic Review 95, 138-160 (2005). "The Risk and Return of Venture Capital," Journal of Financial Economics 75, 3-52 (2005). "Money as Stock," Journal of Monetary Economics 52, 501-528 (2005). With John Y. Campbell, "By Force of Habit: A Consumption-Based Explanation of Aggregate Stock Market Behavior," Journal of Political Economy 107, 205-251.

He has also served as Research associate and Asset Pricing Program Director, National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the Past editor of the Journal of Political Economy. He is the past associate editor of Journal of Business, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Monetary Economics. He was: the Visiting Professor of Finance, UCLA Anderson School of Management, 2000-01; Department of Economics, University of Chicago: 1985-94; Council of Economic Advisers, Junior Staff Economist, 1981-82.

He has an S.B. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkley.