The literature has so far focused on the risk-return tradeoff in equity markets and ignored alternative risky assets. This paper examines the presence and significance of an intertemporal relation between expected return and risk in the foreign exchange market. The paper provides new evidence on the intertemporal capital asset pricing model by using high-frequency intraday data on currency and ...

Capital Assets Pricing Model is used as a tool for the estimation of Investments in Capital Markets with the relation of Expected return and Risk on Securities. This study examines the applicability of CAPM on Pakistan Stock Markets and Karachi Stock Exchange being the main capital market of Pakistan is taken for the study. The analysis is done by taking a sample of 10 performing companies of 1...

This paper provides evidence that the positive relation between firm-level stock returns and firm-level return volatility is due to real options that firms possess. Consistent with the theoretical prediction that the value of a real option should be increasing in the volatility of the underlying asset, we find that the positive volatility-return relation is much stronger for firms that are more...

Previous studies typically find a statistically insignificant relationship between the market risk premium and its expected volatility. Further, several of these studies estimate a negative risk return tradeoff contrary to the predictions of mainstream theory. Using simulations, I demonstrate that even 100 years of data constitute a small sample that may easily lead to this finding even though ...

The bid–ask spread is taken as an important measure of the financial market liquidity. In this article, we study the dynamics of the spread return and the spread volatility of four liquid stocks in the Chinese stock market, including the memory effect and the multifractal nature. By investigating the autocorrelation function and the Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (DFA), we find that the spread ...

• Amihud, Mendelson and Murgia (1990) studied the impact of the stock market microstructure on return volatility and on the value discovery process in the Milan Stock Exchange; the primary trading mechanism employed by this exchange is a call market, which is usually preceded and followed by trading in a continuous market. They found that the opening transaction in the continuous market had the...

The purpose of this study is to compare the impacts of momentum on stock returns of companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange in different market conditions. For this purpose, the sample size is 120 months from 2008 to 2017. The research hypotheses are estimated using multivariate linear regression using time series method. Based on the results of the hypotheses test, the momentum in each of th...

Multiobjective portfolio optimization problem is the portfolio process of the highest expected return among the various financial commodities of the capital market to meet the expected return objectives. And one of the most important and common management issues lies in determining the best portfolio out of a given set of investment proposals. As we know, modern portfolio theory provides a well...