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General Proof of Modigliani-Miller Propositions I and II Using Parameter-Preference Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Jack Becker
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The following proof of Modigliani and Miller's (MM) [2] famous propositions concerning the valuation of the firm and the cost of capital does not require the usual risk-class or arbitrage assumptions; the proof depends only on the Fundamental Theorem of Parameter-preference, which states that the riskpremium for security A is a linear combination of its comoments with the market index, .

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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , March 1978, pp. 65 - 69
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1978

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