The duo of Fama and French is most famous for their 1992 and 1993 papers documenting strong historical value and size effects. (Fama is also famous – or infamous, depending on your perspective – for his association with the efficient market hypothesis.) The core observation of Fama and French’s seminal papers was that the returns on small-company and value stocks – those with high book-to-marke...

We study the performance of conditional asset pricing models in explaining the German cross-section of stock returns. Our test assets are portfolios sorted by size and book-to-market as in the paper by Fama and French (1993). Our results show that the empirical performance of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) can be improved substantially when allowing for time-varying parameters of the st...

This paper offers an alternative method for estimating expected returns. The proposed reward beta approach performs well empirically and is based on asset pricing theory. The empirical section compares this approach with the CAPM and the Fama-French three-factor model. In out-of-sample testing, both the CAPM and the three-factor model are rejected. In contrast, the reward beta approach easily p...

A seminal paper by Fama and Bliss (1987) showed that a simple regression model could explain a significant portion of 1-year ahead excess returns. Cochrane and Piazzesi (2005) showed that their regression model could explain a significantly large portion of excess returns than Fama and Bliss’ model and that a single return-forecasting factor essentially encompassed the predictability of excess ...

In this study, the validity of five-factor model in developing and underdeveloped countries was investigated 2012-2020, as well to be created by using inflation rate instead risk-free interest rate, answers questions its comparison with original model. seeking an answer question, Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia Turkey were selected interest-sensitive investors. Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI)...

for assessment of portfolio performance, it's crucial to adjust the return by the risk which is taken. so it seems undeniable that for measuring the risk-adjusted return of portfolio, we need an appropriate and developed model for risk and asset pricing. fama & french 3 factor model could explain several return anomalies. recent studies show that capital productivity effects on stock retur...

This study provides new estimates of systematic risk and the cost of equity capital for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device sectors using data for firms with publicly-traded stock on U.S. exchanges during 2001-2005 and 2006-2008. Two frameworks are employed for estimating firms’ risk and the cost of equity capital: (1) the capital asset pricing model, and (2) the Fama-French t...

This paper provides an alternate method of evaluating portfolio performance of stock pricing models. We apply Pitman Closeness Criterion to compare the accuracy of three popular pricing models. This comparison is used to assess which, if any, model outperforms the others. In assessing model performance over a long period of time, we find that the Fama-French three-factor model and the Carhart f...

The Mediator complex is at the core of transcriptional regulation and plays a central role in plant immunity. The MEDIATOR25 (MED25) subunit of Arabidopsis thaliana regulates jasmonate-dependent resistance to Botrytis cinerea through interacting with the basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor of jasmonate signaling, MYC2. Another Mediator subunit, MED8, acts independently or togethe...