Financial Equilibrium models have been widely studied in finance literature especially with respect to asset pricing theories. Validity of CAPM and Preference of APT over CAPM has been interest of academia as well as professionals. This research investigates number of potential factors...

The purpose behind this study is to explore the relationship between expected return and risk ofportfolios. It is observed that standard CAPM is inappropriate, so we introduce higher moment inmodel. For this purpose, the study takes data of 60 listed companies of Karachi Stock Exchange100 index....

Our aim is to identify common risk factors among some pre-determined macroeconomic variables in a way that whether they are presented significant risk premiums in pricing equation that was given above. First we identified number of potential factors explaining returns in Turkish markets as...