A New Model of Capital Asset Prices
A New Model of Capital Asset Prices

Author: James W. Kolari

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-03-01

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 3030651975

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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.

Limitations of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
Limitations of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)

Author: Manuel Kürschner

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2008-07-04

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 3638073300

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Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: 1,3, University of Cooperative Education, language: English, abstract: The objective of this paper is to give an overview of the most important movements of the complex area of asset pricing. This will be tried by logically structuring and building up the topic from its origins, the Capital Asset Pricing Model, and then over its main points of critique, in order to arrive at the different options developed by financial science that try to resolve those problematic aspects. Due to the complexity of this subject and the limited scope of this paper, obviously it will not be possible to discuss each model or movement in depth. Coherently, the aim is to point out the main thoughts of each aspect discussed. For further information, especially concerning the deeper mathematical backgrounds and derivations of the models, the author would like to refer the reader to the books mentioned in this paper. Many of those works, finance journal publications and the literature on asset pricing in general, set their focus on different parts of this paper, which again underlines the complexity in terms of scientific scope and intellectual and mathematical intricacy of this topic.

The Capital Asset Pricing Model Vs. the Arbitrage Pricing Theory
The Capital Asset Pricing Model Vs. the Arbitrage Pricing Theory

Author: Karim Saadallah Shalak

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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Two of the most important and well known models for predicting equity returns ar e the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and the Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT). This project will first examine and compare these two models theoretically fro m all aspects focusing on the strengths and weaknesses of each while taking into consideration past empirical work. In addition, this project will compare the empirical performance of the CAPM and the APT, specifically the Fama-French Thre e Factor Model, in predicting stock returns using stocks on the Dow Jones Indust rial Average. Using traditional measures such as the adjusted R-Squared, t-stat istic, and Wald test, no model was found to be superior to the other. As a resu lt, the Hansen-Jagannathan Distance test was used as a second resort. This test shows that the CAPM is actually superior to the APT. Chapter I will introduce both models and their implications. Chapter II and III will focus on the CAPM and APT respectively describing all their aspects includ ing evolution, strengths, weaknesses and past empirical applications. Chapter I V will comprise of an empirical study comparing both models to see which one doe s a better job in predicting equity returns. Chapter V will conclude the projec t with certain policy implications.

Interest Rate Futures Markets and Capital Market Theory
Interest Rate Futures Markets and Capital Market Theory

Author: Klaus Kobold

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-07-22

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 311090330X

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Above all the study is intended to shed more light on the following questions: - the functioning of interest rate futures markets, - the behaviour and transactions of economic agents in these markets, -factors determining the results of transactionsin interest rate future markets. Above we argued that these markets emerged in an environment of fluctuating interest rates to provide traders in financial markets with an instrument to deal with the risk stemming from unexpected price changes. It will be this hedging aspect of interest rate futures markets on which the following research is concentrated. The main points to be investigated are: - to what extent interest rate risk is reduced or even abolished, - the effects of futures trading in interest-bearing securities on risk and return of single assets and portfolios, - the consequences on the situation of participants in capital markets, - optimal strategies to reduce the exposure to interest rate risk.

Building Economics: Theory and Practice
Building Economics: Theory and Practice

Author: Rosalie Ruegg

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-11

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 1475746881

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We no longer build buildings like we used to nor do we pay for them in the same way. Buildings today are no longer only shelter but are also life support systems, communication terminals, data manufacturing centers, and much more. Buildings are incredibly expensive tools that must be constantly adjusted to function efficiently. The economics of building has become as complex as its design. When buildings were shelter they lasted longer than their builders. The av erage gothic master mason lived 35 or 40 years. Cathedrals took 3 or 4 hundred years to build. Cost estimates were verified by great great grandchildren of the original designer. Today, creative economics has become as important as creative design and creative building. The dient brings builder, contractor, architect, and facilities manager to account in their life time. The cost of building can therefore no longer be left to chance or act of god. Solutions are no longer as ingeniously simple as those proposed by a Flor entine builder early in the 15th century. He proposed to center the dome of S. Maria deI Fiore on a great mound of earth mixed with pennies. When the job was done street urchins would carry away the dirt in their search for the pennies. This was a serious suggestion offered by an early construction manager before Brunelleschi solved the problem more sensibly.