SHARPE [12] AND LINTNER [7] have recently proposed models directed at the following questions: (a) What is the appropriate measure of the risk of a capital asset? (b) What is the equilibrium relationship between this measure of the asset's risk and its one-period expected return?^ Lintner contends that the measure of risk derived from his model is different and more general than that proposed b...

longer follow. The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is an elegant theory. With the aid of some simplifying assumptions, it comes to dramatic conclusions about practical matters, such as how to choose an investment portfolio, how to forecast the expected return of a security or asset class, how to price a new security, or how to price risky assets in a merger or acquisition. The CAPM starts wi...

We develop and estimate a model of the dynamic behavior of aggregate corporate dividends as a function of the change in permanent earnings of firms. Although structured along the lines of the Lintner-Brittain-FamaBabiak models of individual-firm dividend behavior, the model uses changes in stock prices instead of accounting earnings to measure permanent earnings changes. The performance of the ...

We develop a model where dividend payout, investment and financing decisions are made by managers who attempt to maximize the rents they take from the firm. But the threat of intervention by outside shareholders constrains rents and forces rents and dividends to move in lockstep. Managers are risk-averse, and their utility function allows for habit formation. We show that dividends follow Lintn...

Cross-asset derivative securities are studied and a dichotomous asset pricing model (DAPM) is derived that significantly enriches the Sharpe-Lintner-Black capital asset pricing model. An assets beta is shown to be observable ex ante through the price of its cross-market call or put, and the DAPM separately predicts the assets’ expected return beta relations under the upper-market and lower-mark...