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Capital Asset Pricing Model
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Capital Asset Pricing Model
Assumptions
1 All investors choose portfolios that are mean-variance e¢ cient over a
common holding period
2 There is a riskless asset o¤ering the rate of return of r over the
holding period
3 Fictionless markets: can borrow and lend at the riskless rate; can be
short; no transaction costs; perfectly divisible units
4 Perceives the same (µ, Σ)
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Derivation of CAPM
Assumption 1: Every investor allocates wealth between the riskless
asset and the tangency portfolio of n risky assets
Assumption 3 implies that it is feasible to do this
Assumption 4: Same tangency portfolio applies to every investor
Everyone wants to hold risky assets in the same relative proportions
It is as if there were some single mutual fund that everyone desired to
hold, which is called market portfolio
Amount for the market portfolio depends on the investor’s wealth and
risk preference
n
pmj j =1 , pmj = Aj Pj 0 /Wm0 , Wm0 = ∑nj=1 Aj Pj 0 ; Wm0 is the
total value of all risky assets and also the total wealth of all investors
Investor i holds a fraction 1 pi 0 of wealth in the market portfolio;
Wm0 = ∑Ii =1 (1 pi 0 ) Wi 0
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Capital Asset Pricing Model
Derivation of CAPM
Investor i’s optimization problem:
maxU i Wi 0 1 + r + pi0 (µ r 1) , Wi20 pi0 Σpi
pi
then
Wm0
µ r1 = Σpm ,
γm
0 Wm0 0
pm (µ r 1) = p Σpm ,
γm m
Wm0 2
µm r = σ ,
γm m
Wm0 µm r
= .
γm σ2m
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Capital Asset Pricing Model
Derivation of CAPM
From
Wm0
µ r1 = Σpm
γm
We can express
Wm0
µj r = σjm
γm
µm r
= σjm
σ2m
σjm
µj = r + ( µm r) .
σ2m
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Capital Asset Pricing Model
Derivation of CAPM
Suppose we model an asset return as follows:
Rjt = µj + βj (Rmt µm ) + ujt ,
where ujt is independent of Rmt . Then
E (Rjt jRmt ) µj = βj (Rmt µm )
σjm E Rjt µj (Rmt µm )
= βj E (Rmt µm )2
βj σ2m
σjm
βj =
σ2m
Security market line (SML) :
µj = r + ( µm r ) βj
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Interpretation
In equilibrium, expected rate of return increases linearly with its beta
coe¢ cient assuming that µm r > 0
Beta is a measure of an asset’s risk
Sensitivity of the asset’s return to variation in the market return
Covariance risk of asset j in m measured relative to the average
covariance risk of assets, which is just the variance of the market
return.
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Interpretation
Given E (Pj 1 + Dj 1 ) , Pj 0 depends only on its beta. Only beta matters
0 1 ∂σ2m
σ2m = pm Σpm ; = σjm
2 ∂pmj
σjm 1 ∂σ2m 1
βj = =
σ2m 2 ∂pmj σ2m
Increment to an asset’s expected return that is required to compensate
for its risk is proportional to its own marginal contribution to the
variance of the market port…lio.
The more an asset contributes to the undesirable riskiness of wealth,
the lower will be its equilibrium price.
The variance of the asset’s own rate of return matters only insofar as
its beta depends on it.
If an asset’s return rate is uncorrelated with the market rate
ρjm = 0 , then it is priced as if it were riskless, no matter how great
its own volatility.
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Capital Asset Pricing Model
Empirical evidence
SML has some testable implications:
n
µj , βj will be a straight line
j =1
intercept = riskless interest rate, slope = average excess rate of return
of the market portfolio
Only beta matters on its expected rate of return
Early cross-section regression:
Rj = a + bbβ j + ej ,
a = Rf ; b = E (RM ) Rf
Problems:
b
βj imprecise and having measurement errors: "errors-in-variable"
problem
Residuals have common source of variaration, for example, industry
e¤ect - positive correlation in the residuals produces downward bias in
OLS estimates of the standard errors of the cross-section regression
slopes.
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Empirical evidence
To improve precision of estimated betas, work with portfolios, rather
than individual securities
Grouping shrinks the range of betas and reduces statistical power. To
mitigate this problem, sort securities on betas when forming portfolios
Fama and MacBeth (1973): cross-sectional regression
month-by-month instead of a single regression
Rjt rt = γ + γ b 0tβ + ujt ,1t jt
where b
βjt is estimated by the following time-series regression
Rj τ rτ = δj + βj τ (Rmτ rτ ) + uj τ , τ = t 60, ,t 1
Test whether γ0 = ∑ γ b 0t /T is close to zero and γ1 close to market
portfolio’s average excess return rate.
Can fully capture the e¤ects of residual correlation in the regression
coe¢ cients, but sidesteps the problem of actually estimating the
correlations
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Empirical evidence
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Capital Asset Pricing Model
Empirical evidence
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Capital Asset Pricing Model
Empirical evidence
Time-series regression: Jensen’s (1968) alpha
Rjt Rft = αj + βj (RMt Rft ) + εjt
Empirical evidence for cross-section regression: the intercept is
greater than the average risk-free rate, and the coe¢ cient on beta is
less than the average excess market return rate E (Rm ) Rf
Empirical evidence for time-series regression: the intercept is positive
with low betas and negative with high betas
Figure 2: Estimate a preranking beta for every stock, using two to
…ve years (as available) of prior monthly returns. Then form ten
value-weight portfolios based on these preranking betas and compute
their returns for the next twelve months. Repeat this process for each
year from 1928 to 2003. Figure 2 plots each portfolio’s average return
against its postranking beta, estimated by regressing its monthly
returns for 1928-2003 on the return on the CRSP value-weight
portfolio of U.S. common stocks
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Capital Asset Pricing Model
Empirical evidence
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Capital Asset Pricing Model
Empirical evidence
Testing whether market betas explain expected returns (and other
variables have no explaining power):
Cross-section regression: add additional regressors and see their
explanatory power
Time-series regression: form portfolios and see whether the intercept is
non-zero
Results from early tests:
Black version of the CAPM seems to hold - market betas su¢ ce to
explain expected returns and the risk premium is positive
Sharpe-Lintner CAPM does not hold - the premium per unit of beta is
not equal to E (Rm ) Rf
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Empirical evidence
Recent tests:
Starting in the late 1970s, empirical work appears that challenges even
the Black version of the CAPM. Speci…cally, evidence mounts that
much of the variation in expected return is unrelated to market beta.
Basu’s (1977) earnings-price ratios
Banz (1981) a size e¤ect
Bhandari (1988) debt-equity ratios
Statman (1980) and Rosenberg, Reid and Lanstein (1985)
book-to-market equity ratios
Fama and French (1992) use the cross-section regression approach to
con…rm that size, earnings-price, debt-equity and book-to-market ratios
add to the explanation of expected stock returns provided by market
beta
Fama and French (1996) reach the same conclusion using the
time-series regression approach applied to portfolios of stocks sorted on
price ratios.
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Empirical evidence
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Alternative Asset Pricing Model
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Alternative Asset Pricing Model
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Alternative Asset Pricing Model
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Alternative Asset Pricing Model
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Alternative Asset Pricing Model
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Alternative Asset Pricing Model
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Alternative Asset Pricing Model
Fama and French (2015) 5 factor model
Stock valuation
∑∞ E [Yt +τ dBt +τ ] / (1 + r )
τ
Mt
= τ =1 (3)
Bt Bt
Fix everything in (3) except the current value of the stock, Mt , and
the expected stock return, r. Then a lower value of Mt , or
equivalently a higher book-to-market equity ratio, Bt /Mt , implies a
higher expected return.
Next, …x Mt and the values of everything in (3) except expected
future earnings and the expected stock return. The equation then
tells us that higher expected earnings imply a higher expected return.
Finally, for …xed values of Bt , Mt , and expected earnings, higher
expected growth in book equity – investment – implies a lower
expected return. Stated in perhaps more familiar terms, (3) says that
Bt /Mt is a noisy proxy for expected return because the market cap
Mt also responds to forecasts of earnings and investment.
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Alternative Asset Pricing Model
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Alternative Asset Pricing Model
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Alternative Asset Pricing Model
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Alternative Asset Pricing Model
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Alternative Asset Pricing Model
Merton’s (1973) intertemporal capital asset pricing model (ICAPM):
ICAPM investors consider how their wealth at t might vary with future
state variables, including labor income, the prices of consumption
goods and the nature of portfolio opportunities at t, and expectations
about the labor income, consumption and investment opportunities to
be available after t
As a result, optimal portfolios are "multifactor e¢ cient," which means
they have the largest possible expected returns, given their return
variances and the covariances of their returns with the relevant state
variables
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Alternative Asset Pricing Model
Dt = ( 1 δ ) Dt 1 + Et
Savings:
N
∑ Bit = Wt Ct Pt Et
i =0
Intertemporal budget constraints:
N
Wt + 1 = ∑ Bit Ri ,t +1
i =0
Epstein-Zin utility
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Alternative Asset Pricing Model
Equilibrium condition:
Et [Mt +1 (Ri ,t +1 R0,t +1 )] = 0 (10)
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Market Proxy Problem
Roll (1977) argues that the CAPM has never been tested and
probably never will be.
It is not theoretically clear which assets (for example, human capital)
can legitimately be excluded from the market portfolio, and data
availability substantially limits the assets that are included.
As a result, tests of the CAPM are forced to use proxies for the
market portfolio, in e¤ect testing whether the proxies are on the
minimum variance frontier.
Roll argues that because the tests use proxies, not the true market
portfolio, we learn nothing about the CAPM.
A major problem for the CAPM is that portfolios formed by sorting
stocks on price ratios produce a wide range of average returns, but
the average returns are not positively related to market betas
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Market Proxy Problem
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References
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