a multi-asset version of the downside risk CAPM. In line with the empirical literature, they find that the cross …-section of realized returns is much better explained when using the downside risk CAPM, rather than relying on the traditional … CAPM. However, in contrast to the empirical literature, the authors cannot always recover the required signs in their cross …

(beta), as indicated by the single-factor Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), and the multifactor Fama-French Three …