explaining exchange rate movements. The asset market theory of exchange rate determination implies that exchange rates are mainly … driven by the development of macroeconomic fundamentals. Furthermore the asset market theory assumes that foreign exchange … speculation, economic theory states that speculation can have either a stabilizing effect or a destabilizing effect on exchange …

point and exert a strong influence on decision making and preferences. This paper surveys the theory of reference …

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 …-factor asset pricing models. Models tested are the CAPM, the Fama-French three-factor model and a four-factor model including the …

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 …

model derived from Rosen’s hedonic price theory. Two different stock market models are developed to estimate the model, a … basic firm’s stock market model and a modified Capital Assets Pricing Model (CAPM). The explanatory variables include risk …

The traditional literature on the CAPM assumes that investor's tax payments simply vanish from the model. This … assumption is not at all consistent with the actual behavior of the Treasury. The theory of general equilibrium states that an … interest rate rf = 0 will not affect prices if taxes are introduced. We show that this result can be extended to the CAPM if …

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 …

asset pricing model (CAPM) including size premiums and a time-varying parameter model for the North African emerging markets …