Download or read book Testing Asset Pricing Models Under Non linear Assumptions written by Ye Jiang and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Empirical Asset Pricing written by Wayne Ferson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the theory and methods of empirical asset pricing, integrating classical foundations with recent developments. This book offers a comprehensive advanced introduction to asset pricing, the study of models for the prices and returns of various securities. The focus is empirical, emphasizing how the models relate to the data. The book offers a uniquely integrated treatment, combining classical foundations with more recent developments in the literature and relating some of the material to applications in investment management. It covers the theory of empirical asset pricing, the main empirical methods, and a range of applied topics. The book introduces the theory of empirical asset pricing through three main paradigms: mean variance analysis, stochastic discount factors, and beta pricing models. It describes empirical methods, beginning with the generalized method of moments (GMM) and viewing other methods as special cases of GMM; offers a comprehensive review of fund performance evaluation; and presents selected applied topics, including a substantial chapter on predictability in asset markets that covers predicting the level of returns, volatility and higher moments, and predicting cross-sectional differences in returns. Other chapters cover production-based asset pricing, long-run risk models, the Campbell-Shiller approximation, the debate on covariance versus characteristics, and the relation of volatility to the cross-section of stock returns. An extensive reference section captures the current state of the field. The book is intended for use by graduate students in finance and economics; it can also serve as a reference for professionals.

Download or read book Assessing Asset Pricing Models Using Revealed Preference written by Jonathan B. Berk and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We propose a new method of testing asset pricing models that does not rely on prices and returns but on quantities (flows) instead. Under the assumption that capital markets are competitive and investors rational, an asset pricing model can only be correct if investors are using it in their capital allocation decisions. Therefore, any investment opportunity that the model identifies as having a non-zero alpha must be accompanied by capital flows of the same sign as the alpha. We use the data on active mutual funds to identify such flows, and find that the recent alternatives to the Capital Asset Pricing Model do not improve upon the original model.

Download or read book Nonlinearity and Endogeneity in Macro Asset Pricing written by Mr.Charles Frederick Kramer and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1995-03-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We find nonlinear feedback between the stock market and certain macroeconomic factors. This evidence calls into question the adequacy of these factors as a basis for a linear pricing model. It also means that the interaction between the economy and the stock market is more complicated than given by the simple relationship in Chen, Roll and Ross (1986). It also suggests that the univariate evidence for nonlinear dynamics in the stock market may be due to the complicated relationship between the macroeconomy and the stock market.

Download or read book Solving Estimating and Testing Nonlinear Asset Pricing Models written by Alexander Craig Burnside and published by Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International. This book was released on 1991 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Alternative Capital Asset Pricing Models written by Attiya Y. Javed and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Testing the Linear Relationship of the Capital Asset Pricing Model written by Jad Zouheir Nohra and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main purpose of the project is to relate the risk of assets to their expecte d returns (mainly assets that are traded on a handful of developed markets, incl uding US, Japanese, French, and German exchanges). In order to do so, we refer t o the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) which consists of relating the risk of an asset to its expected return by comparing it to the overall stock market. Thi s model is based on the existence of a linear relationship between the expected return of a given asset, and the market rate of return. Consequently, any return that is not explained by this linear relationship (abnormal return) will lead u s to reject the theoretical linear relationship stated and formulated in the CAP M. The first chapter will introduce the topic. The second chapter consists of prese nting the CAPM, its critiques and extensions. In the third chapter, a literature review will be conducted. Then, in the fourth chapter I will undertake time ser ies/cross-sectional analyses of the aforementioned equity markets in order to te st the CAPM model itself. The same stocks will be tested using the international version of the model. Finally, in the fifth chapter I will conclude with the im plications of my findings for asset pricing and investment.

Download or read book The Capital Asset Pricing Model with High Non homogeneous Expectations written by Clodualdo R. Francisco and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Asset Pricing Theories written by Michael Rothschild and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article compares two leading models of asset pricing: the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and the arbitrage pricing theory (APT): I argue that while the APT is compatible with the data available for testing theories of asset pricing, the CAPM is not. In reaching this conclusion emphasis is placed on the distinction between the unconditional (relatively incomplete) information which econometricians must use to estimate asset pricing models and the conditional (complete) information which investors use in making the portfolio decisions which determine asset prices. Empirical work to date suggests that it is unlikely that the APT will produce a simple equation which explains differences in risk premium well with a few parameters. If the CAPM were correct, it would provide such an equation.

Download or read book The Paradox of Asset Pricing written by Peter Bossaerts and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asset pricing theory abounds with elegant mathematical models. The logic is so compelling that the models are widely used in policy, from banking, investments, and corporate finance to government. To what extent, however, can these models predict what actually happens in financial markets? In The Paradox of Asset Pricing, a leading financial researcher argues forcefully that the empirical record is weak at best. Peter Bossaerts undertakes the most thorough, technically sound investigation in many years into the scientific character of the pricing of financial assets. He probes this conundrum by modeling a decidedly volatile phenomenon that, he says, the world of finance has forgotten in its enthusiasm for the efficient markets hypothesis--speculation. Bossaerts writes that the existing empirical evidence may be tainted by the assumptions needed to make sense of historical field data or by reanalysis of the same data. To address the first problem, he demonstrates that one central assumption--that markets are efficient processors of information, that risk is a knowable quantity, and so on--can be relaxed substantially while retaining core elements of the existing methodology. The new approach brings novel insights to old data. As for the second problem, he proposes that asset pricing theory be studied through experiments in which subjects trade purposely designed assets for real money. This book will be welcomed by finance scholars and all those math--and statistics-minded readers interested in knowing whether there is science beyond the mathematics of finance. This book provided the foundation for subsequent journal articles that won two prestigious awards: the 2003 Journal of Financial Markets Best Paper Award and the 2004 Goldman Sachs Asset Management Best Research Paper for the Review of Finance.

Download or read book Investment Valuation and Asset Pricing written by James W. Kolari and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook is intended to fill a gap in undergraduate finance curriculums by providing an asset pricing text that is accessible for undergraduate finance students. It offers an overview of original works on foundational asset pricing studies that follows their historical publication chronologically throughout the text. Each chapter stays close to the original works of these major authors, including quotations, examples, graphical exhibits, and empirical results. Additionally, it includes statistical concepts and methods as applied to finance. These statistical materials are crucial to learning asset pricing, which often applies statistical tests to evaluate different asset pricing models. It offers practical examples, questions, and problems to help students check their learning and better understand the fundamentals of asset pricing., alongside including PowerPoint slides and an instructor’s manual for professors.

Download or read book Testing Asset Pricing Models Using Market Expectations written by Jozef Drienko and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We investigate the use of market-based expectations to test the CAPM and the conditional CAPM using a generalised method of moments framework. This method is valid under much weaker distributional assumptions and provides the procedure with robustness that commonly employed tests lack. Expected returns are derived from projected price levels of individual securities that are supplied in the form of twelvemonth consensus (median) target price forecasts. The annual forecasts, updated each month, are combined with dividend expectations to calculate the necessary time series of continuous expected returns. As such, we are able to avoid the use of instrumental variable models that, we argue, are likely to suffer from overfitting data concerns. In fact, we find that expected returns estimated from analyst data, while certainly not perfect, provide a better fit in comparison to the existing instrumental variable models.

Download or read book Empirical Asset Pricing Models written by Jau-Lian Jeng and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the verification of empirical asset pricing models when returns of securities are projected onto a set of presumed (or observed) factors. Particular emphasis is placed on the verification of essential factors and features for asset returns through model search approaches, in which non-diversifiability and statistical inferences are considered. The discussion reemphasizes the necessity of maintaining a dichotomy between the nondiversifiable pricing kernels and the individual components of stock returns when empirical asset pricing models are of interest. In particular, the model search approach (with this dichotomy emphasized) for empirical model selection of asset pricing is applied to discover the pricing kernels of asset returns.

Download or read book Modern Portfolio Theory the Capital Asset Pricing Model and Arbitrage Pricing Theory written by Diana R. Harrington and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1987 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Empirical Test of the Capital Asset Pricing Modell CAPM on Current Stock Data written by Lucas Ammelung and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2020 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: 1,3, Munich University of Applied Sciences, language: English, abstract: The goal of this study is thus to determine the best available asset pricing model in Germany and whether the use of pre-existing datasets, with the factors already calculated, brings results as accurate as a custom dataset. This is relevant in Germany as the CAPM is still the most commonly used way to compute the cost of equity with 34% of companies using it. Another 16% of companies are using asset pricing models with additional risk factors. To determine the answer to this, this study will look into the aforementioned three most commonly used models: the CAPM, the Fama and French three-factor model and the Carhart four-factor model. After explaining the background and functioning of the CAPM, this study will show the flaws within the model and how these flaws led to extensions of the CAPM. Each model will then be statistically analyzed with three distinct sets of data. Two of these are publicly available, while the last has been calculated for this study. Lastly, to understand how the difference in data used can influence the results from asset pricing models, the runtime and underlying factor of datasets will be modified, re-analyzed and compared to the initial results.

Download or read book An Asset Pricing Model with Biases in Beliefs written by Shalini Singh and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is based on the Expected Utility (EU) theory that assumes linearity in probabilities and models the assumption of risk-aversion via a concave utility function. Studies in psychology and economics, however, show that individuals systematically violate the assumption of linearity in probabilities and this affects their risk attitudes. I derive a measure of risk-premium that arises due to non-linearity in probabilities, captured by a non-linear probability weighting function, and arrive at a measure of conditional risk-aversion. I show that properties of the weighting function implies that the measure of conditional risk-aversion is decreasing in the outcome, in the case of a gamble with a uniform distribution. For the case of a normal distribution, I describe sufficient conditions on the distribution under which the measure of conditional risk-aversion is decreasing in the outcome. Further, I make a set of plausible assumptions on the weighting function and the measure of conditional risk-aversion, to reflect an individual's probability beliefs about a gamble; and characterize the shape of implied marginal utility function in the EU framework. In an asset-pricing model, such probability beliefs implies that the representative agent behaves as if risk-seeking in some regions of outcome, in particular, the small decumulative probability region of positive excess market returns (corresponding to high market gains). Moreover, the stochastic discount factor (SDF) is increasing in, among possibly other regions, the small decumulative probability region of positive excess market returns. This is in contrast to a decreasing SDF implied by the CAPM and its extensions. The model's prediction for the SDF, and consequently, its implications for the cross-section of expected returns, provides a plausible explanation for the weak relationship between a stock's average return and its CAPM beta.

Download or read book Statistics with Vague Data written by Rudolf Kruse and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is an attempt to unify existing works in the field of random sets, random variables, and linguistic random variables with respect to statistical analysis. It is intended to be a tutorial research compendium. The material of the work is mainly based on the postdoctoral thesis (Ha bilitationsschrift) of the first author and on several papers recently published by both authors. The methods form the basis of a user-friendly software tool which supports the statistical inferenee in the presence of vague data. Parts of the manuscript have been used in courses for graduate level students of mathematics and eomputer scienees held by the first author at the Technical University of Braunschweig. The textbook is designed for readers with an advanced knowledge of mathematics. The idea of writing this book came from Professor Dr. H. Skala. Several of our students have significantly contributed to its preparation. We would like to express our gratitude to Reinhard Elsner for his support in typesetting the book, Jorg Gebhardt and Jorg Knop for preparing the drawings, Michael Eike and Jiirgen Freckmann for implementing the programming system and Giinter Lehmann and Winfried Boer for proofreading the manuscript. This work was partially supported by the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. We are indebted to D. Reidel Publishing Company for making the pub lication of this book possible and would especially like to acknowledge the support whieh we received from our families on this project.