We discount the cash flows of a levered firm with a different discount rate than the cost of equity of the unlevered firm because:

Question 36 options:

a)	leverage decreases the risk of equity of the firm.

b)	leverage changes the unlevered cost of equity.

c)	leverage increases the risk of equity of the firm.

d)	cost of debt decreases in this setting.

e)	default risk increases.