Refining Our Understanding of Beta through Quantile Regressions

The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) has been a key theory in financial economics since the 1960s. One of its main contributions is to attempt to identify how the risk of a particular stock is related to the risk of the overall stock market using the risk measure Beta. If the relationship between...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Allen B. Atkins, Pin T. Ng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-05-01
Series:Journal of Risk and Financial Management
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/7/2/67