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This paper employs contingent claims analysis to decompose the firm's systematic risk into the risk as- sociated with its assets in place and the risk arising from future growth opportunities. 5 Contingent claims analysis is well-suited to such decomposition, since a growth opportunity can be...
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We provide an empirical evaluation of the forward-looking long-run risks (LRR) model and highlight model differences with the backward-looking habit based asset pricing model. We feature three key results: (i) Consistent with the LRR model, there is considerable evidence in the data of...
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This paper examines popular advice on portfolio allocation among cash, bonds, and stocks. It documents that this advice is inconsistent with the mutual-fund separation theorem, which states that all investors should hold the same composition of risky assets. In contrast to the theorem, popular...
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Modern Portfolio Theory, the Capital Asset Pricing Model, and the Efficient Market Hypothesis are cornerstone concepts … in both academic and professional curricula. In spite of their long history and reputation, the CAPM and its extensions …
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This paper considers a plethora of option-based measures of stock mispricing introduced by previous literature. These measures are based on differences between implied and actual stock prices, differences in implied volatilities across options, and on option trading volume. We show that stocks...
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quot;Risk managementquot; in securities markets refers to the oversight of portfolio managers and professional traders when they trade on behalf of investors in security markets. Monitoring of their trading performance, profit and loss, and risk-taking behavior, is measured by principals using...
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The Euler equations of consumption are tested on the household consumption of non-durables and services, reconstructed from the CEX database. The estimated relative risk aversion coefficient of the representative household decreases, and the estimated unexplained mean equity premium decreases,...
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In this paper we study a simple two-period asset pricing model to understand the implications of uninsurable labor income risk and/or borrowing constraints, limited stock market participation, heterogeneous labor income volatilities, and heterogeneous preferences. We appraise the performance of...
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mean-variance (MV) optimization model and capital asset pricing model (CAPM). Model builds on MV optimization and CAPM by … long and short positions). BLM overcomes these issues by choosing a neutral reference point, CAPM equilibrium. It also … allows investors to express their views with varying confidence levels and integrate these views into CAPM prior by using a …
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