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==Sharpe and Litner: CAPM== | ==Sharpe and Litner: CAPM== | ||
===Assumptions of the CAPM=== | |||
As all models, the CAPM need some simplifying assumptions. For many of them, it had later been demonstrated that they can be relaxed, at the cost of complexification. | |||
* Investors, taken individually, are small compared to the market. | |||
* Investors are myopics and only care about returns over one period. | |||
* Invetsors have homegeneous expectations about returns and risk of financial assets, meaning, that they all use the same expected returns and covariance matrix. | |||
* Investors all all mean-variance optimizers, what implies the use of the Portfolio Theory | |||
* Absence of transaction costs and taxes. | |||
* Existence of a unique risk-free rate at which the investor can borrow or lend money. | |||
==Empirical research on CAPM== | ==Empirical research on CAPM== | ||
Revision as of 12:08, 3 March 2008
Origins: Risk and Returns
Since the beginning of Financial Economics, researchers have always seen a relation between risk and return. During the Midddle Age, boats travelling around the globe were already insured in function of the destination, the type of ship and the shipement.
But it was only after the 1950's that a clear relationship beetwen risk and return had been established by Harry Markowitz with his works on the Portfolio theory.
Sharpe and Litner: CAPM
Assumptions of the CAPM
As all models, the CAPM need some simplifying assumptions. For many of them, it had later been demonstrated that they can be relaxed, at the cost of complexification.
- Investors, taken individually, are small compared to the market.
- Investors are myopics and only care about returns over one period.
- Invetsors have homegeneous expectations about returns and risk of financial assets, meaning, that they all use the same expected returns and covariance matrix.
- Investors all all mean-variance optimizers, what implies the use of the Portfolio Theory
- Absence of transaction costs and taxes.
- Existence of a unique risk-free rate at which the investor can borrow or lend money.