Market risk of an asset or portfolio is recognized through beta in Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). Traditional estimation techniques emerge poor results when beta in CAPM assumed to be dynamic and follows auto regressive model. Kalman Filter (KF) can optimally estimate dynamic beta where measurement noise covariance and state noise covariance are assumed to be known in a state-space framewo...

This paper shows how differences across countries of 1) inflation rates, 2) consumption baskets of investors, and 3) investment opportunity sets of investors matter when one applies capital asset pricing models in an international setting. In particular, the fact that countries differ is shown to affect the portfolio held by investors, the equilibrium expected returns of risky assets, and the f...

This paper presents a test of multi-period asset pricing models using quarterly Philippine data. Using a consumption-based asset-pricing model, the study finds the rate of time preference to be 5.20 percent (on an annual basis). The estimated risk aversion coefficient of 0.043 seems to be on the low side when compared with estimates for other countries. Hansen's J-test finds favorable evidence ...

As emphasized by Giovannini and Labadie (1991), empirical regularities involving nominal interest rates, asset prices, and inflation should be ultimately determined by money. The role of money, however, is almost neglected, particularly in terms of asset-pricing literature. This paper attempts to investigate the role of money in asset pricing in Japan. Specifically, it compares the empirical pe...

Managerial Hedging and Incentive Compensation in Stock Market Economies Incentive compensation exposes managers to the risk of their firms. Managers can hedge their aggregate risk exposure by trading in financial markets, but cannot hedge their firmspecific exposure. This gives them an incentive to pass up firm-specific projects in favor of standard projects that contain greater aggregate risk....

Considerable attention has recently been given to general equilibrium models of the pricing of capital assets. Of these, perhaps the best known is the mean-variance formulation originally developed by Sharpe (1964) and Treynor (1961), and extended and clarified by Lintner (1965a; 1965b), Mossin (1966), Fama (1968a; 1968b), and Long (1972). In addition Treynor (1965), Sharpe (1966), and Jensen (...

I review recent research efforts in the area of empirical cross-sectional asset pricing. I start by summarizing the evidence on cross-sectional return predictability and the failure of standard (consumption) CAPM models and their conditional versions to explain these predictability patterns. One response in part of the recent literature is to focus on adhoc factor models, which summarize the cr...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: G32 G31 G33 C61 Keywords: Counterparty effect Market incompleteness Optimal capital structure This paper builds a static contingent-claim model that allows for examining the optimal capital structure with the joint arguments of counterparty default risk and market incompleteness. A first-passage-time model with jump default barrier is adopted to capture...

Markowitz and Sharpe won the Nobel Prize in Economics for the development of MeanVariance (M-V) analysis and the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics for the development of Prospect Theory. In deriving the CAPM, Sharpe, Lintner and Mossin assume expected utility (EU) maximisation in the face of risk aversion. Kahneman and Tversky suggest Prospect Theory ...

For one–period projects under certainty, the notion of Net Present Value (NPV) formally translates the notion of economic profit, where the discount rate is the cost of capital. Under uncertainty, the cost of capital is the expected rate of return of an equivalent-risk alternative that the investor might undertake and is often found by making recourse to the Capital Asset Pricing Model. This pa...