This book proposes a new capital asset pricing model dubbed the ZCAPM that outperforms other popular models in empirical tests using US stock returns. The ZCAPM is derived from Fischer Black's well-known zero-beta CAPM, itself a more general form of the famous capital asset pricing model (CAPM)...

Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Portfolio Theory and Practice -- Part II: Previous Asset Pricing Models -- Chapter 2: General Equilibrium Asset Pricing Models -- Chapter 3: Multifactor Asset Pricing Models -- Part III: The ZCAPM -- Chapter 4: A New Asset Pricing Model: The ZCAPM -- Chapter 5:...

In a recent book, Kolari et al. developed a new theoretical capital asset pricing model dubbed the ZCAPM. Based on out-of-sample cross-sectional tests using U.S. stocks, the ZCAPM consistently outperformed well-known multifactor models popular in the finance literature. This paper presents...

Chapter 1: Portfolio Theory and Practice -- Chapter 2: Capital Market Conditions -- Chapter 3: Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) -- Chapter 4: The Market Model -- Chapter 5: The Zero-Beta CAPM -- Chapter 6: Alternative CAPM Specifications -- Chapter 7: Arbitrage Pricing Theory -- Chapter 8:...