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Quantitative Finance > Pricing of Securities
Title: An Asymmetric Capital Asset Pricing Model
(Submitted on 22 Apr 2024)
Abstract: Providing a measure of market risk is an important issue for investors and financial institutions. However, the existing models for this purpose are per definition symmetric. The current paper introduces an asymmetric capital asset pricing model for measurement of the market risk. It explicitly accounts for the fact that falling prices determine the risk for a long position in the risky asset and the rising prices govern the risk for a short position. Thus, a position dependent market risk measure that is provided accords better with reality. The empirical application reveals that Apple stock is more volatile than the market only for the short seller. Surprisingly, the investor that has a long position in this stock is facing a lower volatility than the market. This property is not captured by the standard asset pricing model, which has important implications for the expected returns and hedging designs.
Submission history
From: Abdulnasser Hatemi-J [view email][v1] Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:40:31 GMT (149kb)
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