Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …

effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …

kernel that depends on returns, as in the CAPM or the APT, can accurately price assets. In this sense, theory based on …

basic firm’s stock market model and a modified Capital Assets Pricing Model (CAPM). The explanatory variables include risk …

The traditional literature on the CAPM assumes that investor's tax payments simply vanish from the model. This … interest rate rf = 0 will not affect prices if taxes are introduced. We show that this result can be extended to the CAPM if …

returns. The finance literature has uncovered several potential failings of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). I … investigate the ability of additional risk factors, which are not considered by the CAPM, to explain these problems. In particular … to refine and reassess the cross-sectional evidence against the CAPM.In the first chapter, I test the cross …

-variance efficient in the sense of classical CAPM. We show that, depending on the noise traders' behavior, the performance of efficient …