Asset pricing theory implies that the estimate of the zero-beta rate should fall between divergent lending and borrowing rates. This paper proposes a formal test of this restriction using the difference between the prime loan rate and the 1-month Treasury bill rate as a proxy for the difference...

An ICAPM which includes bank credit growth as a state variable explains 94% of the cross-sectional variation in the average returns on the 25 Fama–French portfolios. We find compelling evidence that bank credit growth is priced in the cross-section of expected stock returns, even after...

It is well-established in the financial literature that the global performance of mutual fund managers is the result of two skills: selectivity and market timing. This paper examines whether the multivariate Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) approach improves our...

The empirical financial literature has recently suggested that the US stock market might be efficient in bad times and inefficient in good times. This article explains why some psychological phenomena such as wishful thinking, overconfidence and the house money effect might cause deviations from...

This article investigates mutual fund performance in the Tunisian capital market using conditional multifactor models. In the mutual fund literature, the traditional approach to capture conditionality is the use of predetermined instruments. This study proposes a multivariate Generalized...

This paper uses the betas of book-to-market portfolios as proxies for systematic risks of industries instead of the individual betas computed from individual time-series regressions. Our empirical specification improves both the precision of the beta estimates and the cost of equity estimates....