Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the nature and extent of instability of capital asset pricing model (CAPM) beta in a small emerging capital market. Design/methodology/approach – Inter-period as well as intra beta instability are examined. Inter-period instability is...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the forecasting power of the conditional relationship between beta and international stock returns. Design/methodology/approach – Using the market model, the individual betas for each country in the sample are estimated by ordinary least...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the forecasting power of the conditional relationship between beta and international stock returns. Design/methodology/approach – Using the market model, the individual betas for each country in the sample are estimated by ordinary least...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the shocks to firm's beta around the event of addition or deletion from the S&P 500 index. Design/methodology/approach – The total derivative of beta and Campbell and Vuolteenaho decomposition of beta methodologies are used, on monthly and...

Traditionally, ordinary least square (OLS) regression methods are used to test asset pricing models. This study focuses on the use of quantile regression as an alternative approach to the analysis of risk and return distributions in quantitative finance. It empirically examines the behaviour of...

Since there is not a special common framework for valuation banks and it gives possibilities to create establishment, improvement and adaptation of various approaches to measuring the value of banks and financial institutions. Most approaches banks valuation note the strong dependence of...

This study aims to compare Black Litterman Model and Markowitz Mean Variance Model with beta factor, unsystematic risk and total risk. The data set used in this study covers daily corrected prices of 17 firms’ listed on ISE for the period between 2003 and 2009. By using Markowitz Mean Variance...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate the Beta Risk Coefficient of 32 listed companies (shares), which are included in the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE All Share Index). Design/methodology/approach – This research investigated some of the issues that can affect beta estimates (the...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the intervalling effect bias in ETFs' systematic risk expressed by beta. The authors' findings reveal the existence of a significant intervalling effect on ETFs' beta obtained by the ordinary least squares method (OLS). Also investigated is the impact...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate the Beta Risk Coefficient of 32 listed companies (shares), which are included in the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE All Share Index). Design/methodology/approach – This research investigated some of the issues that can affect beta estimates (the...