Implementing fisher Black's simple discounting rule

Loderer, Claudio; Roth, Lukas; Long, John B (2010). Implementing fisher Black's simple discounting rule. Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, 22(2), pp. 60-68. Wiley-Blackwell 10.1111/j.1745-6622.2010.00274.x

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We propose a simple implementation of Black’s (1988) elegant rule for discounting uncertain future cash flows. Black’s rule avoids the thorny problem of estimating an appropriate risk-adjusted discount rate. Instead, the rule calls for discounting conditional mean cash flows at appropriate riskless interest rates. Our contribution in this article is to describe and illustrate a method of estimating the conditional mean cash flows called for in Black’s rule. The method is quite flexible with respect to the types of information available concerning the distributions of future cash flows. We argue that this approach to computing present values offers a theoretically sound and generally feasible addition to the toolbox of financial managers.

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