This paper determines whether the world market risk, country-specific total risk, and country-specific idiosyncratic risk are priced in an international capital asset pricing model (ICAPM). The paper also tests if the price of risk associated with each factor is common across countries....

The paper attempts to measure the relationship between risk and return, and the effect of diversification on non-market risk in Indian stock market by applying Market Index Model. For the analysis monthly adjusted opening and closing prices of composite portfolio of BSE 100 companies, for the...