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An Empirical Study of Unsystematic Risk Factors in the Capital Asset Pricing Model: the Case of Russian Forestry Sector
Objective: The objective of this paper is to consider the CAPM, to determine its most disputable points, to identify concepts defining and supplementing the points of the model. The article ends with an example of calculation of the cost of equity for a company of a forestry sector of Russia, which makes it possible to prove the need to consider industry and specific peculiarities upon calculation of the company’s equity cost.
Contribution & Value Added: The originality of the research is based on the assessment of the effects of non-systematic risks on investment projects in the forestry sector in Russia. This covers the following problems that have been solved: assessment of the state of the Russian forest-based sector based on the SWOT analysis; the analysis of the CAPM- concept while implementing investment projects in the forest-based sector of Russia; non-systematic risk identification and assessment that affect the realization of the investment projects in the forest-based sector of Russia; the financial and economic assessment of the impact of non-systematic risks on the project implementation in the forestry sector of Russia.