Empirical evidences regarding the association of idiosyncratic volatility and stock returns are inconsistent with the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), which implies that idiosyncratic risk should not be priced because it would be fully eliminated through diversification. Using Exponential...

We present a model for the equilibrium movement of capital between asset markets that are distinguished only by the levels of capital invested in each. Investment in that market with the greatest amount of capital earns the lowest risk premium. Intermediaries optimally trade off the costs of...

This paper uses the information in time-series behavior of conditional correlation between Fama-French factor portfolios and state variables that define the investment opportunity set, vis-a-vis the contemporaneous phase of the business cycle and/or the expectations about the near term business...