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...