Asset pricing lies at the heart of financial economics, being not only the foundation of every other field in this subject area but also having prime relevance for practical decision-making. For this two-volume collection the editor has selected some of the most influential articles which have...

This paper compares two approximation schemes for calculating the optimal portfolios in the discrete-time dynamic investment model, specifically, the mean-variance (MV) and the quadratic approximations, to the exact power function method. Future returns are estimated via the empirical...