The main criterion in investment decisions is to maximize the investors utility. Traditional capital asset pricing models cannot be used when asset returns do not follow a normal distribution. For this reason, we use capital asset pricing model with independent and identically asymmetric power distributed (CAPM-IIAPD) and capital asset pricing model with asymmetric independent and identically a...

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...

During recession, many macroeconomic variables display higher levels of volatility. We show how introducing an AR(1)-ARCH(1) driving process into the canonical Lucas consumption CAPM framework can account for the empirically observed greater volatilty of asset returns during recessions. In particular, agents' joint forecasting of levels and time-varying second moments transforms symmetric-volat...

Keywords: Capital asset pricing model (Capm) Capital asset pricing theory Finance theory Hedonic pricing Portfolio theory Residential rental real estate investment (RRREI) Security market line Systematic/unsystematic risk

Is Beta Dead?” (Wallace [1980]) and other recent articles have asked whether broad consequences, disastrous to modern investment technology, would result from misspecification of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), or worse yet, from falsehood of the model. The criticisms have cited imprecise specification of the market portfolio as a misapplication of the CAPM, and have emphasized the diff...

The paper shows that turnover proxies for firm-specific uncertainty, not liquidity risk. I show that turnover is unrelated to several alternative measures of liquidity risk and that liquidity risk factors cannot explain why higher turnover predicts lower future returns. I show that, because high turnover firms have high uncertainty, high turnover firms beat the CAPM when aggregate volatility in...

By exploiting the structural tax rate changes created by the Bush-era tax acts in 2001 and 2003, this study offers a first direct investigation of how the differential taxation of financial assets affects households’ asset location and allocation into taxable and tax-deferred accounts in a natural experimental framework. Because bonds are heavily taxed assets, relative to stocks, and tax treatm...

We study the relative risk of value and growth stocks. We find that time-varying risk goes in the right direction in explaining the value premium. Value betas tend to covary positively, and growth betas tend to covary negatively with the expected market risk premium. Our inference differs from that of previous studies because we sort betas on the expected market risk premium, instead of on the ...