Some Thoughts on the External Finance Premium and the Cost of Internal Finance

Brissimis, Sophocles N. and Papafilis, Michalis and Vlassopoulos, Thomas (2018): Some Thoughts on the External Finance Premium and the Cost of Internal Finance.

Abstract

We draw a conceptual distinction between the cost and the opportunity cost of internal finance, the latter being an integral part of the definition of the external finance premium in the literature. We come up with an operational definition of the cost of internal finance and calculate its differential with the cost of external finance. We further delve into the concept of the equilibrium real interest rate and measure it in terms of the cost of internal finance as the rate that would prevail in the long run after temporary shocks in the economy have died out.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: External finance premium; Cost of internal finance; Equilibrium real interest rate
• Subjects: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E4 - Money and Interest Rates > E44 - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E5 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit > E52 - Monetary Policy; G - Financial Economics > G3 - Corporate Finance and Governance > G32 - Financing Policy ; Financial Risk and Risk Management ; Capital and Ownership Structure ; Value of Firms ; Goodwill

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