The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) receives both criticism and widespread adoption by practitioners and academics as the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) equity component. This study introduces two new costs of equity measures to address CAPM criticisms and provide new perspective on...

In the work, the subject of the discount rate assessment is presented. It is crucial as regards assessing the non-financial investment profitability. The discount rate is usually considered as constant one in the whole investment period, which seems to be the main problem. The constant discount...

Transaction-cost models in continuous-time markets are considered. Given that investors decide to buy or sell at certain time instants, we study the existence of trading strategies that reach a certain final wealth level in continuous-time markets, under the assumption that transaction costs,...

This study is conducted to test the impact of two fundamental values (FCF & EPS), depicted through financial reports, on security prices. Sample includes all nonfinancial firms listed in KSE-30 Index and covers 9 years period 2000-08. Valuation of securities done through discounting of free cash...

Sector investment has grown significantly in international stock markets an also in the Spanish one, during the last few years. Among other issues, sector portfolio managers need to estimate accurately the beta of their portfolios in order to carry out more efficient investment strategies....

Campbell, Hilscher, and Szilagyi (2008) show that firms with a high probability of default have significantly low average future returns. We show that there is a large overlap between stocks classified as high default risk, and those that are likely to produce extremely high returns over the...

When Capital Asset pricing Model (CAPM) is considered as valid asset pricing theory, Security Market Line (SML) is supposed to give ex-ante returns for the single period investment horizon. Since the required returns should be same as the cost of equity (discount rates) in efficient markets, SML...

Capital Assets Pricing Model (CAPM) is the widely tested, accepted and rejected model of asset pricing. From its beginning (1964) it has occupied the prime place and still part of the text books on finance in leading business schools. This study is conducted in Pakistani institutional frame work...

Capital Asset Pricing model (CAPM) is widely researched, tested, and paradoxically both generally accepted and rejected model of asset pricing. From its beginning (1964) it has occupied the pride of place among the financial economist's research, and still part of the text books on finance in...

Using a framework akin to portfolio theory in asset pricing, we introduce the concept of “political beta” to model firm-level export diversification in response to global political risk. The main implication of our model is that a firm is less responsive to changes in political relations...