In this article, we test the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) by measuring the performance of two portfolios composed of construction firms: family-controlled and nonfamily controlled. These portfolios were selected from the WIG-Construction (WIG-Warszawski...

This paper provides new evidence on the positive risk-return tradeoff in the Thai stock market using monthly data. An AR(p)-GARCH-in-mean model is applied to the data from January 1981 to December 2009. Since stock prices and dividend series are not cointegrated, the excess returns are...

This paper presents possibilities for the pricing of stocks listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in light of the ICAPM. The pricing test period (1996–2010) is divided into two sub-periods: 1996–2005 (the years preceding Poland's accession to the EU) and 2005–2010 (the years of Poland's...

This study finds crude oil prices (`oil prices') affect market or portfolio expected returns on the NSE only via inducement of changes to risk aversion parameters of the `representative agent' who has exposure to both stock market return volatility risk and oil price risk. I refer to this effect...

Using a newly developed dataset of daily, value-weighted market returns we construct and analyze the monthly realized volatility of the Athens Stock Exchange (A.S.E.) from 1985 to 2003. Our analysis focuses on the distributional and time series properties of the realized volatility series and on...

In this paper we compare the explanatory power of a single index model with the multifactor asset-pricing model of Fama and French (1996) for Dhaka stock exchange for the period of January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2012. We find that all the three factors have significant determining impact on...

The purpose of the article is to analyse the impact of various financial ratios used to evaluate a company’s liquidity and solvency on the rates of return on the shares of companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. In the context of developing countries, the relationship between liquidity...

This work is an attempt to estimate the cost of equity capital characteristic among portfolios of companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in the years 1995-2017. To this end, the classic CAPM is used to estimate the cost of risk. Model tests are based on 252 monthly returns. In order to...

This paper explores possibilities of using rolling regression CAPM on the Zagreb Stock Exchange in portfolio and risk management. Since original model has many flaws, one of them including the assumption of constant parameters in the model, extending the model with the assumption of changing...

In this study, the Consumption-oriented Capital Asset Pricing Model (CCAPM) is tested for Nigeria by considering returns on investments in the Nigerian Stock Exchange market and other financial assets for the period 1993: Q1 to 2016:Q4. Three tests are conducted. The first test examines forecast...