Badwella United Company (BUC) is worried that its banana plantation in El Salvador will be expropriated during
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Badwella United Company (BUC) is worried that its banana plantation in El Salvador will be expropriated during the next 2 years. However, BUC, through an agreement with El Salvador’s central bank, knows that compensation of $100 million will be paid if the plantation is expropriated. If the expropriation does not occur, the plantation will be worth $400 million 2 years from now. A wealthy El Salvadoran has just offered $160 million for the plantation. BUC would have used a discount rate of 23% to discount the cash flows from its Honduran operations if the threat of expropriation were not present. Evaluate whether BUC should sell the plantation now for $160 million. (Hint: Set up a diagram.)
Depending upon the context, the discount rate has two different definitions and usages. First, the discount rate refers to the interest rate charged to the commercial banks and other financial institutions for the loans they take from the Federal...
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International Financial Management
ISBN: 978-0132162760
2nd edition
Authors: Geert Bekaert, Robert J. Hodrick