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Book General Equilibrium Foundations of Finance

Download or read book General Equilibrium Foundations of Finance written by Thorsten Hens and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to give a sound economic foundation of finance. Finance is a coherent branch of applied economics that is designed to understand financial markets in order to give advice for practical financial decisions. This book argues that for a sound economic foundation of finance the famous general equilibrium model which in its modern form emphasizes the incompleteness of financial markets is well suited. The aim of the book is to demonstrate that financial markets can be meaningfully embedded into a more general system of markets including, for example, commodity markets. The interaction of these markets can be described via the well known notion of a competitive equilibrium. We argue that for a sound foundation this competitive equilibrium should be unique. In a first step we demonstrate that this essential goal cannot of be achieved based only on the rationality principle, i. e. on the assumption utility maximization of some utility function subject to the budget constraint. In particular we show that this important lack of structure is disturbing as well for the case of mean-variance utility functions which are the basis of the Capital Asset Pricing Model, one of the cornerstones of finance. The final goal of our book is to give reasonable restrictions on the agents' utility functions which lead to a well determined financial markets model.

Book Partial  Vs  General equilibrium Models of the International Capital Market

Download or read book Partial Vs General equilibrium Models of the International Capital Market written by Bernard Dumas and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this essay, I discuss and compare two ways of modeling international capital market equilibrium: the orthodox, general-equilibrium approach and the heterodox, partial-equilibrium CAPM (Capital Asset Pricing Model) approach. The benchmark for this comparison is the model's ability to provide an explanation for, or take into account, a number of stylized facts of international finance: UIRP deviations, home-equity preference, PPP deviations and their persistence, consumption behavior in relation to wealth. In addition, I ask which approach is more likely in future research to help us identify the relevant state variables of the economy. None of the models satisfactorily explains the stylized facts but the CAPM approach affords the most productive avenue for empirical research in the immediate future.

Book General Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model

Download or read book General Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model written by Cheol Soo Park and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dynamic Asset Allocation with Forwards and Futures

Download or read book Dynamic Asset Allocation with Forwards and Futures written by Abraham Lioui and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an advanced text on the theory of forward and futures markets which aims at providing readers with a comprehensive knowledge of how prices are established and evolve in time, what optimal strategies one can expect the participants to follow, whether they pertain to arbitrage, speculation or hedging, what characterizes such markets and what major theoretical and practical differences distinguish futures from forward contracts. It should be of interest to students (MBAs majoring in finance with quantitative skills and PhDs in finance and financial economics), academics (both theoreticians and empiricists), practitioners, and regulators. Standard textbooks dealing with forward and futures markets generally focus on the description of the contracts, institutional details, and the effective (as opposed to theoretically optimal) use of these instruments by practitioners. The theoretical analysis is often reduced to the (undoubtedly important) cash-and-carry relationship and the computation of the simple, static, minimum variance hedge ratio. This book proposes an alternative approach of these markets from the perspective of dynamic asset allocation and asset pricing theory within an inter-temporal framework that is in line with what has been done many years ago for options markets.

Book A New Model of Capital Asset Prices

Download or read book A New Model of Capital Asset Prices written by James W. Kolari and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a new capital asset pricing model dubbed the ZCAPM that outperforms other popular models in empirical tests using US stock returns. The ZCAPM is derived from Fischer Black’s well-known zero-beta CAPM, itself a more general form of the famous capital asset pricing model (CAPM) by 1990 Nobel Laureate William Sharpe and others. It is widely accepted that the CAPM has failed in its theoretical relation between market beta risk and average stock returns, as numerous studies have shown that it does not work in the real world with empirical stock return data. The upshot of the CAPM’s failure is that many new factors have been proposed by researchers. However, the number of factors proposed by authors has steadily increased into the hundreds over the past three decades. This new ZCAPM is a path-breaking asset pricing model that is shown to outperform popular models currently in practice in finance across different test assets and time periods. Since asset pricing is central to the field of finance, it can be broadly employed across many areas, including investment analysis, cost of equity analyses, valuation, corporate decision making, pension portfolio management, etc. The ZCAPM represents a revolution in finance that proves the CAPM as conceived by Sharpe and others is alive and well in a new form, and will certainly be of interest to academics, researchers, students, and professionals of finance, investing, and economics.

Book A General Equilibrium Approach to Asset Pricing in an Efficient Market

Download or read book A General Equilibrium Approach to Asset Pricing in an Efficient Market written by Ralph Chami and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper derives closed-form solutions for asset returns, investment, consumption and inflation in an economy with multi-good Cobb-Douglas production and consumer preferences as in Epstein and Zin (1991). The implied solutions are relatively simple, with an index of aggregate marginal product of capital forming the main determinant of asset returns. Consumption may be substituted out of the asset pricing relationship entirely. It is shown that this model may be viewed as a generalized Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). The paper estimates the asset pricing relationships for returns on 17 portfolios of 2-digit SIC manufacturing industries and the automobile industry. The performance of this model is also compared with the results of the static CAPM, the factor model of Chen, Roll, and Ross (1986), the consumption based CAPM and Marshall's (1992) asset-pricing model using goodness-of-fit tests under the generalized method of moments procedure. The overall evidence suggests that the general equilibrium model is itself a reasonable model of returns and is competitive with other standard asset pricing models.

Book Advanced Finance Theories

Download or read book Advanced Finance Theories written by Ser-huang Poon and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For PhD finance courses in business schools, there is equal emphasis placed on mathematical rigour as well as economic reasoning. Advanced Finance Theories provides modern treatments to five key areas of finance theories in Merton's collection of continuous time work, viz. portfolio selection and capital market theory, optimum consumption and intertemporal portfolio selection, option pricing theory, contingent claim analysis of corporate finance, intertemporal CAPM, and complete market general equilibrium. Where appropriate, lectures notes are supplemented by other classical text such as Ingersoll (1987) and materials on stochastic calculus.

Book A General Equilibrium Analysis of the Capital Asset Pricing Model

Download or read book A General Equilibrium Analysis of the Capital Asset Pricing Model written by Richard G. Harris and published by Kingston, Ont. : Institute for Economic Research, Queen's University. This book was released on 1975* with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Asset Pricing for Dynamic Economies

Download or read book Asset Pricing for Dynamic Economies written by Sumru Altug and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-11 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to general equilibrium modelling takes an integrated approach to the analysis of macroeconomics and finance. It provides students, practitioners, and policymakers with an easily accessible set of tools that can be used to analyze a wide range of economic phenomena. Key features: • Provides a consistent framework for understanding dynamic economic models • Introduces key concepts in finance in a discrete time setting • Develops simple recursive approach for analyzing a variety of problems in a dynamic, stochastic environment • Sequentially builds up the analysis of consumption, production, and investment models to study their implications for allocations and asset prices • Reviews business cycle analysis and the business cycle implications of monetary and international models • Covers latest research on asset pricing in overlapping generations models and on models with borrowing constraints and transaction costs • Includes end-of-chapter exercises allowing readers to monitor their understanding of each topic Online resources are available at www.cambridge.org/altug_labadie

Book A General Equilibrium Analysie of the Capital Asset Pricing Model

Download or read book A General Equilibrium Analysie of the Capital Asset Pricing Model written by Richard Harris and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Three Essays in Asset Pricing Theories

Download or read book Three Essays in Asset Pricing Theories written by Gyutaeg Oh and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Financial Markets Theory

Download or read book Financial Markets Theory written by Emilio Barucci and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-12-11 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A presentation of classical asset pricing theory, this textbook is the only one to address the economic foundations of financial markets theory from a mathematically rigorous standpoint and to offer a self-contained critical discussion based on empirical results. Tools for understanding the economic analysis are provided, and mathematical models are presented in discrete time/finite state space for simplicity. Examples and exercises included.

Book The Capital Asset Pricing Model

Download or read book The Capital Asset Pricing Model written by and published by Bookboon. This book was released on with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model

Download or read book General Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model written by Cheol Soo Park and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Toward a Quantitative General Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model with Intangible Capital

Download or read book Toward a Quantitative General Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model with Intangible Capital written by Hengjie Ai and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We model investment options as intangible capital in a production economy in which younger vintages of assets in place have lower exposure to aggregate productivity risk. In equilibrium, physical capital requires a substantially higher expected return than intangible capital. Quantitatively, our model rationalizes a significant share of the observed difference in the average return of book-to-market-sorted portfolios (value premium). Our economy also produces (1) a high premium of the aggregate stock market over the risk-free interest rate, (2) a low and smooth risk-free interest rate, and (3) key features of the consumption and investment dynamics in the US data.