This paper examines the applicability of CAPM in explaining the risk-return relation in the Malaysian stock market for the period of January 1995 to December 2006. The test, using linear regression method, was carried out on four models: the standard CAPM model with constant beta (Model I), the...

We discuss the finding that cross-sectional characteristic based models have yielded portfolios with higher excess monthly returns but lower risk than their arbitrage pricing theory counterparts in an analysis of equity returns of stocks listed on the JSE. Under the assumption of general...

Hundreds of papers and hundreds of factors attempt to explain the cross-section of expected returns. Given this extensive data mining, it does not make any economic or statistical sense to use the usual significance criteria for a newly discovered factor, e.g., a t-ratio greater than 2.0....

Stockholders are faced with both macroeconomic uncertainty and uncertainty that is generated from fears. We develop a financial stress factor as a proxy for pessimism that operates through stockholders' expectations about the elevated market volatility and shocks the cross-section of stock...

Traditional portfolio optimization models specify placement of capital as rather irrevocably and fully at risk through investment horizon(s) or continuously. Under this constraint, asset class allocation typically serves as primary mode of diversification, pursuing risk moderation by seeking to...

This paper employs the ZCAPM asset pricing model of Liu, Kolari, and Huang (2018) to show that momentum returns are highly related to market risk arising from return dispersion (RD). Cross-sectional tests show that momentum risk loadings and RD risk loadings are similarly priced in momentum...

A recent book by Kolari, Liu, and Huang (KLH) (2021) developed a new theoretical capital asset pricing model dubbed the ZCAPM, which outperformed well-known multifactor models in cross-sectional tests using U.S. stocks. This paper extends their analyses by employing a longer sample period from...

The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is tested using data of all available stocks in the Caracas Stock Exchange (CSE) from 1992 to 1998. We use a multiple regression model to test several hypotheses that lead to the validation of the CAPM. We find significant evidence to conclude that the CAPM...

This paper develops a new measure of return asymmetry, following Patil et al. (2012). We demonstrate that the return asymmetry measure helps explain the cross section of stock returns. Consistent with results in Barberis and Huang (2008), our empirical findings show that stocks with high return...