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Energy Sector Risk and Cost of Capital Assessment—Companies and Investors Perspective

open access: yesEnergies, 2021
This paper aims to identify the costs of capital in a group of companies from the energy sector by including an investor and market risk approach. The study also concerns the company’s Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) cost intra-industry analysis ...
Justyna Franc-Dąbrowska   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Influence of Environmental, Social, and Governance Disclosure on Capital Structure: An Investigation of Leverage and WACC

open access: yesJournal of Risk and Financial Management
This paper seeks to examine the extent to which environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure affects capital structure and cost of capital for non-financial Fortune 500 firms.
T. Tawfiq   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Solar Energy in 2025: Global Deployment, Cost Trends, and the Role of Energy Storage in Enabling a Resilient Smart Energy Infrastructure

open access: yesENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.
This paper explores global solar PV deployment, cost trends, and grid integration challenges in 2025. It examines the role of energy storage in firming solar output and supporting electric vehicle (EV) growth, alongside policy shifts, investment flows, and technological innovations.
Ehsan Rezaee, S. Ravi P. Silva
wiley   +1 more source

Cost of capital: The effect to the firm value and profitability of companies: Evidence of a selected group of companies on the Sarajevo and Banja Luka stock exchanges [PDF]

open access: yesBankarstvo, 2023
The weighted average cost of capital is the rate that companies must pay to shareholders and creditors. Therefore, it is a risk-adjusted discount rate for the company's cash flows.
Alihodžić Almir
doaj  

What is “accuracy”? Rethinking machine learning classifier performance metrics for highly imbalanced, high variance, zero‐inflated species count data

open access: yesLimnology and Oceanography: Methods, EarlyView.
Abstract Machine learning has opened the door for the automated sorting (classification) of images, holograms and acoustic backscatters of individual plankton, invertebrates, fish and marine mammals. However, this field is complicated by decades of paradoxically promising reports of classifier performance that do not correlate with real‐world uptake of
Bianca M. Owen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The link between environmental, social and corporate governance disclosure and the cost of capital in South Africa

open access: yesJournal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2020
Orientation: Ignoring environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) aspects exposes firms to risks that diminish value, shrink returns and even lead to failure. Firms considering ESG aspects are perceived as less risky by capital providers.
Ruth Johnson
doaj   +1 more source

Value-Based Inventory Management [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The basic financial purpose of a firm is to maximize its value. An inventory management system should also contribute to realization of this basic aim.
Michalski, Grzegorz
core   +1 more source

The impact of Arctic sea‐ice loss on winter weather in the British Isles

open access: yesQuarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.
Arctic sea‐ice loss shifts the North Atlantic jet and storm track equatorward, and results in a more negative North Atlantic Oscillation and more positive East Atlantic and Scandinavian patterns. Strong extratropical cyclones weaken and become less frequent for the British Isles, but there is model disagreement for precipitation, surface winds, and ...
Stephanie Hay   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Generalization of the Brusov–Filatova–Orekhova Theory for the Case of Variable Income

open access: yesMathematics, 2022
To expand the applicability in practice of the modern theory of cost and capital structure, the theory of Brusov–Filatova–Orekhova (BFO), which is valid for companies of arbitrary age, is generalized for the case of variable income.
Peter Brusov, Tatiana Filatova
doaj   +1 more source

Do tax havens affect the usage of share buybacks schemes?

open access: yesAnnals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines whether the use of tax haven subsidiaries by U.S. multinational corporations (MNCs) is associated with more intense usage of share buybacks. I find that MNCs' more intensive tax haven subsidiary usage is positively associated with a higher buyback ratio, a higher level of free cash flow and a higher level of return on ...
Alessandro Chiari
wiley   +1 more source

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