This paper explores the ability of theoretically-based asset pricing models such as the CAPM and the consumption CAPM referred to jointly as the (C)CAPM to explain the cross-section of average stock returns. Unlike many previous empirical tests of the (C)CAPM, we specify the pricing kernel as a conditional linear factor model, as would be expected if risk premia vary over time. Central to our a...

Power management for nodes in a sensor network is a topic of great interest due to the limited resources available on sensor devices and the need to maximize the network lifetime and delivery ratios. This problem is further compounded in Disruption Tolerant Networks (DTNs) since they are characterized with frequent partitions and intermittent connectivity, which may further suffer if the case o...

This paper addresses about an approach that suggests for stock portfolio optimization using the combination of Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) and Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). Stock portfolio optimization aims to determine which of the stocks to be added to a portfolio based on the investor’s needs, changing economic and market conditions. In order to construct an efficient...

Starting from the reward-risk model for portfolio selection introduced in De Giorgi (2004), we derive the reward-risk Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) analogously to the classical mean-variance CAPM. The reward-risk portfolio selection arises from an axiomatic definition of reward and risk measures based on few basic principles, including consistency with second order stochastic dominance. Wi...

The conditional CAPM and the nonlinear APT are two important extensions of the Sharpe-Lintner constant beta CAPM. Bansal, Hsieh, and Viswanathan (1993), and Ghysels (1998) suggest that the nonlinear APT is empirically more successful than the conditional CAPM. Using a flexible nonparametric version of the conditional CAPM, we get the opposite result: the conditional CAPM does a substantially be...

This article provides an empirical investigation into the validity of the production-based capital asset-pricing model (P-CAPM) in the Japanese asset markets during the period 1980-1997. Several methodologies are used to test the P-CAPM, which include the GMM test of the Euler equations, the volatility bound test, the mispricing test, and the test of the ability of stock and investment returns ...

For over 30 years academics and practitioners have been debating the merits of the CAPM. One of the characteristics of this model is that it measures risk by beta, which follows from an equilibrium in which investors display mean-variance behavior. In that framework, risk is assessed by the variance of returns, a questionable and restrictive measure of risk. The semivariance of returns is a mor...

In this paper we test computationally the performance of CAPM in an evolutionary setting. In particular we study the stability of wealth distribution in a financial market where some traders invest as prescribed by CAPM and others behave according to different portfolio rules. Our study is motivated by recent analytical results that show that, whenever a logarithmic utility maximiser enters the...

Financial economists have derived equilibrium asset pricing models such as the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) of Sharpe (1964) and Lintner (1965) and the consumption-oriented CAPM of Breeden (1979). Subsequent work (e.g., Black, Jensen, and Scholes 1972; Fama and MacBeth 1973; Breeden, Gibbons, and Litzenberger 1989) examined the empirical performance of unconditional versions of these asse...