In this paper, we revisit a frequently employed simplification within the WACC approach that company cost of capital kV is supposed to be invariant to the debt ratio and therefore equal to the unlevered cost kU . Even though we know from Miles and Ezzell (1980) that kV formally differs from kU ,...

This paper analyzes the funding advantage of green bonds and the determinants of what is referred to as the “greenium” (the “green” premium). To this end, we first separate the greenium from a simultaneously prevailing liquidity premium in empirical yield spreads. For green German...