This book undertakes industry analysis of the risk-return behaviour of stock returns in the US. It focuses on transportation and a number of non-transportation companies, with particular attention paid to water transportation. The market risk (measured by beta) is identified as the relevant...

The aim of this paper is to apply a multifactor model to analyse the determinants of the risk-return relationship of US listed water transportation stocks and thereafter compare them with the corresponding determinants of other transport industries such as air transportation, rail transportation...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the behaviour of water transportation company stock returns in the U.S. stock exchanges from 1985 to 1994 in order to determine whether the systematic risk of this industry is different from that of the 'average' company in the market, whether it has...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the relative risks involved in owning and operating tanker vessels of different sizes in world spot and time-charter (TC) markets. Cointegrating Error Correction ARCH models are used to model spot and TC rates for each ship size and the associated time...

This paper attempts to uncover and compare the macroeconomic determinants of the stock returns of US listed water transportation companies to those of other transport sectors over the period July 1985-June 1995; these involve air transportation, rail transportation and trucks. Other, non-transport...