long-run risks and fat tails, the pricing of VIX (CBOE Volatility Index) options and the market price of risk embedded in … estimate the structural parameters of the proposed model by maximum likelihood. I find that the stochastic volatility model … volatility risk. However, there is no consensus on the premium for market volatility risk. It can be positive or negative. The …

coefficients of coskewness and cokurtosis have the correct sign as predicted by the higher-moment CAPM theory but only cokurtosis … size and book-to-market ratio in Chapter 3. This is a cross-sectional test of the conditional CAPM. The models examined … portfolios.Next, I examine the recently proposed realized beta model, which is based on the realized volatility literature, by …

kernel that depends on returns, as in the CAPM or the APT, can accurately price assets. In this sense, theory based on …Recent developments in intertemporal asset pricing theory focus on two sets of fundamental determinants of asset …, most empirical applications, as well as the best practice in the financial industry, ignore much of what theory has to say …

returns. The finance literature has uncovered several potential failings of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). I … investigate the ability of additional risk factors, which are not considered by the CAPM, to explain these problems. In particular … to refine and reassess the cross-sectional evidence against the CAPM.In the first chapter, I test the cross …

replicated, the exchange rate volatility is formidably increased and the exchange rate correlation pattern is relatively close to …

. Following which, theory from the life cycle model and adaptations of previous researchers' models are used to create a …