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Lesson 20 of 26

Corporate Finance Lecture 20: Designing the Perfect Debt

This video is a part of online course on Corporate Finance by Professor Aswath Damodaran of NYU.

This video discusses:

  • Designing the "perfect" financing instrument
  • Debt, equity and quasi Equity
  • Designing debt: The fundamental principle
  • The basic idea: Debt that behaves like equity
  • The steps in designing the perfect bond
  • Approaches for debt design
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Corporate Finance by Aswath Damodaran

26 lessons

Lessons

1
Corporate Finance Lecture 1 - Introduction
2
Corporate Finance Lecture 2: Shareholders and Management
3
Corporate Finance Lecture 3: Corporate Governance
4
Corporate Finance Lecture 4: Conflicts of Interest
5
Corporate Finance Lecture 5: Risk and Return
6
Corporate Finance Lecture 6: Estimating Inputs for CAPM
7
Corporate Finance Lecture 7: Estimating Risk
8
Corporate Finance Lecture 8: All About Estimating Beta
9
Corporate Finance Lecture 9: Beta and Cost of Equity
10
Corporate Finance Lecture 10: Estimating Cost of Debt
11
Corporate Finance Lecture 11: Calculating Cost of Capital
12
Corporate Finance Lecture 12: Measuring Returns
13
Corporate Finance Lecture 13: NPV, IRR, and ROE
14
Corporate Finance Lecture 14: Equity Analysis, Acquisitions and Projects
15
Corporate Finance Lecture 15: Project Side Costs and Benefits
16
Corporate Finance Lecture 16: Project Choices and the Financing Decision
17
Corporate Finance Lecture 17: Debt Tradeoff, Miller-Modigliani Theorem, Optimal Financing Mix
18
Corporate Finance Lecture 18: Cost of Capital as Optimizing Tool
19
Corporate Finance Lecture 19: Optimal Financing Mix
20
Corporate Finance Lecture 20: Designing the Perfect Debt
21
Corporate Finance Lecture 21: The Dividend Policy (Part 1)
22
Corporate Finance Lecture 22: The Dividend Policy (Part 2)
23
Corporate Finance Lecture 23: The Dividend Policy (Part 3)
24
Corporate Finance Lecture 24: Valuation and Estimating Inputs
25
Corporate Finance Lecture 25: Valuation (Continued)
26
Corporate Finance Lecture 26: Course Review
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